The gospel of the day is that raising children to speak and understand more than one language is good for their cognitive development. A number of studies released in the past few years have indicated ...

Imagine a little girl who greets her parents “good morning” in Spanish during breakfast, argues with her siblings at lunchtime in English, and FaceTimes her grandmother in Mandarin just before going ...

New research findings show that bilingual people are great at saving brain power, that is. To do a task, the brain recruits different networks, or the highways on which different types of information ...

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

It might even be the case that Britain’s varied bilingual communities – from Polish- to Punjabi-speakers – constitute a sort of hidden resource, invisible in the debates about the decline of languages ...

New hyperscanning research reveals that when bilingual mothers and children play together, their brains align just as strongly in a second language as in their native tongue, challenging assumptions ...

Raising bilingual children has become more common as families grow increasingly connected across cultures and countries. You might be motivated by heritage, opportunity, or simply the value of ...

New polling data found that Latino families in California have a particularly high interest in bilingual education and dual-language immersion programs, reinforcing national data on families’ demand ...