Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

The language that adolescents use is often described as sloppy, with an air of 'What's going to happen to all these kids who can't even talk properly?' Yet research from the University of Gothenburg, ...

Post written by François Grosjean. The influence of a first language on a second language in the form of interferences (transfers) is well accepted and well documented (see here). But until fairly ...

Language development in the first language is not yet complete at the beginning of adolescence. Language development in the first language is not yet complete at the beginning of adolescence.

Cultural competence has become a familiar phrase in medical education and admissions. Medical schools emphasize it in mission statements, applicants often reference it in ...

If you want to master languages, you should pick your parents with care, new research from Norway shows. A good working memory is perhaps the brain's most important system when it comes to learning a ...