Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

Language proficiency assessment encompasses a diverse range of methodologies designed to evaluate an individual’s communicative abilities, from grammatical precision to the dynamic management of ...

As a Chinese and Japanese language teacher, I’ve always had a secret antipathy for sushi and dumplings. It’s not that I don’t like to eat them. It’s just that, in my first experiences teaching these ...

April 23, 2022 — Asia Society Acting Vice President of Education Neelam Chowdhary speaks with author and acclaimed education adviser Homa Tavangar about developing global and cultural competence ...

The Center for Language Studies will sponsor a new Certificate in Intercultural Competence that will allow students to formally synthesize their language and experiential learning into a cohesive ...

Two concepts—acquisition and learning—play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the ...

Salvador Ordorica is the CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a first-class international translation service that translates over 90 languages. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, being able ...

Two concepts – acquisition and learning – play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in ...

New longitudinal research from Finland has found that children's early spatial skills and knowledge of written letters, rather than oral language skills, predict competence in math. The study included ...

Speaking two languages, when one of them is a minority language, is a complex affair. A new book, Analysis of Bilingual Competence: Language Acquisition among Young People in the Gaeltacht, compares ...