How important are linguistic skills for academic success – and indeed for social participation? This is a key question in education research into language development and involves a quest for answers ...

The question of which cognitive and interactive processes underlie foreign language learning is the subject of many different approaches and research studies. Their results can help us better ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SRG23\230787) which supported the research project reported here. If you’ve always wanted to learn a new ...

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There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...