Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

Post written by François Grosjean. "Susana keeps mixing her two languages; she's semilingual!" "Pierre doesn't know either language well; he combines them all the time!" I cringe, as do other language ...

It is common for Australian children to grow up with languages other than English in their family lives. More than one-fifth of Australians report speaking a language other than English at home. But ...

Yuko Goto Butler, a University of Pennsylvania TESOL expert, has published a comprehensive book on children's foreign language learning that questions the long-held belief that younger learners always ...

Kids can learn languages really easily, which makes a lot of adults wonder why it is so hard for them to do the same thing when they are older. Kids can figure out how to say words and understand the ...

Across Sarasota and beyond, concern is growing around one parenting question: Should we stop speaking our native language so our child can focus on English? For families who speak Spanish, French, ...

Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when the teacher gives instructions. He could simply be adjusting to English – ...