Over the last two years, public schools have welcomed thousands of children who speak little or no English — many of whom wind up in classes where little or no instruction is done in their native ...

In a Spanish-speaking classroom, first-grader Maisy struggles with a math assignment, though not the Spanish instructions printed on a worksheet. Kneeling down to ask her questions, Mauricio Segovia ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research ...

Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...