Nearly seven out of 10 children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unable to understand a simple text by age 10, a report by the Global Coalition for Foundational Learning has said. The ...

English and Spanish speakers learning each other's languages have to deal with the challenge of false friends, words that ...

Children who speak languages other than Norwegian at home have different, and in some cases better, conditions when learning ...

Cyngor Gwynedd plans to "remove bilingual teaching" with Welsh becoming "the principal language of education".

For years, many parents have despaired at their children's enthusiastic – and ... has seen an explosion in the use of casual British English. They revealed that 'bonkers' is now the fastest ...

Children do not appear to develop cooking skills merely by observing their parents’ food skills, even when those skills are ...

Taiwan cannot sit and wait for others to learn Mandarin, or it would be limited to the worst kind of expats whose only skill is to speak less Mandarin than a local. Most businesses would benefit ...

Phones and screens play an important role in the show. At home, Jaime, the 13-year-old accused killer, has a computer in his room, which his middle-class father was proud to be able to give him. At ...

This is a key reason schools prohibit cellphones: Teachers believe phones can distract students and be temptations that end ...