While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

"We have seen that the results of the way in which we have been teaching the English language to date are not the desired ones". David Lasagabaster (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1967) knows what he is talking ...

Anyone who has tried to learn a new language as an adult knows how hard it can be. And usually the ability to comprehend someone else comes before the capacity for speaking the new tongue. “When ...