I teach English as a second language to three immigrant women one night a week as a volunteer for the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, in Maryland, so I have a personal interest in the recent ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Many of us wish we could learn another language. It seems young kids have no problem picking up a second or third language but for adults, that changes. At the Star of the North ...

On a weekday afternoon, students from all over the world gather in a classroom in Queens to learn English. Tomas Yucailla Cepeda has been attending since February 2022. “It’s very, very important to ...

This project was funded by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONRBAA13-003) entitled “Training the Mind and Brain: Investigating Individual Differences in the Ability to Learn and Benefit ...

Luz Marina Zuleta worries about her mother. Each day as Zuleta goes to work with Fairfax County, she leaves her 64-year-old mom Gloria Sotomonte in her Oak Hill home. Sotomonte emigrated to the United ...

Our ability to hear and understand a second language becomes more and more difficult with age, but the adult brain can be retrained to pick up foreign sounds more easily again. This finding, reported ...

DAVIS - An adult reading program in Davis is making a huge difference, especially for one man who could not speak English when he moved to Davis. A few years ago, this would've seemed impossible but ...

September 11, 2025 - An audit found the charter received millions in funding for which it was not eligible, assigned teachers to classes they were not credentialed to teach, and avoided standardized ...

SOUTH BEND — When South Bend native Laquisha Jackson became pregnant in high school, she made the decision to pause her education. Now 41 years old, Jackson has founded her own catering company and ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...