Scientists report that bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age efficiently and accurately process two languages. Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers ...

Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages ...

Worldwide, there are more children who grow up learning multiple languages than children learning only one. And yet monolingualism is often taken as a starting point, for example in school. Research ...

Raising bilingual children does not cause confusion or speech delays. Experts confirm that speaking your mother tongue helps ...

"For a bilingual human, every utterance requires a choice about which language to use," observes senior author Liina Pylkkanen, a professor in New York University's Department of Linguistics and ...

Interview conducted by François Grosjean. One of the most intriguing phenomena in bilingualism is how infants who acquire two or more languages from birth manage to discriminate and separate their ...

It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the first study to examine bilingual and monolingual brains as they learn an additional ...

Depending on what you read, speaking more than one language may or may not make you smarter. These mixed messages are understandably confusing, and they're due to the fact that nothing is quite as ...

Finding bilingual educators has been a long-standing problem for school districts across the country. Now, a study out of Georgia State University explores why finding those teachers may be only half ...

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. The study found that instead of following the one-parent-one-language approach, in ...