Language Learning in the News

Articles and studies about language and second language learning

• Learning Language: New insights into how brain functions, Science Daily, 8 May 2019
• Linguists found the "weirdest languages" - and English is one of them, The Conversation, 12 April 2019
• How Important is Learning a Foreign Language? (student opinion; answer-VERY) 29 March 019
• "How learning a second language changed my life" BBC News, 27 February 2019
• Emotions and second languages, The Conversation, 4 June 2018
  • The study for the above article
• You're never too old to become fluent in a second language The Conversation, 10 May 2018
  • The study for the above article
• Being bilingual may help autistic children, EurekAlert, 16 January 2018
• How learning a new language improves tolerance, The Conversation, 16 December 2016
• Bilingual brains have better attention and focus, Science Alert, 15 September 2016
• Language learning boosts brain plasticity and ability to code new information, Medical News Today, 5 September 2016
• 7 Emotions That Can't Be Explained in English, Huffington Post, 31 March 2016
• "The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals"-NYT, Friday, 11 March, 2016
• 25 reasons to study a foreign language
• The connection between languages and music
• What happens in the brain when you learn a foreign language, The Guardian, September, 2014