A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

It typically takes seven to nine years for ELs to reach Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). Building skills—whether they’re academic skills or learning to dance, drive, or play an ...

Individual differences in resource availability, and the patterns of cognitive abilities they contribute to, are important to: • explaining variation between learners in the effectiveness of second ...

Recently, though, cognitive scientists and linguists have abandoned Chomsky’s “universal grammar” theory in droves because of new research examining many different languages—and the way ...

Questions around which instructional strategies work best for English-learners are far from settled, including how much a bilingual approach to teaching puts such students at an advantage.

Research suggests that bilingual people enjoy some cognitive benefits later in life, but it probably requires more than a few Spanish lessons in your 60s.

An MIT study suggests children remain skilled at learning language much longer than expected -- up to the age of 17 or 18. However, scientists also found it nearly impossible for people to achieve ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 66-79 (14 pages) The literature pertaining to college students with learning disabilities was reviewed to arrive at a summary of ...

They are rarely taught in academic institutions like business schools - let alone elementary institutions. Yet it’s never too early to start forging these non-cognitive tools, including in the 7 ...