We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

Dr. Lewis Lummer, senior lecturer of communication sciences and disorders, has taught ASL for 17 years at Baylor. Throughout ...

Learning a language is challenging, and I don’t want to sugarcoat it,” said Diana Serrano, Ph.D., senior lecturer of Spanish.

The hand movement is a visual cue meant to help the 13 English learners in the class of 19 students grasp the meaning of the ...

Lewis Central High School students are learning American Sign Language at the Iowa School for the Deaf, fostering communication and understanding between hearing and deaf communities ...

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Embracing multilingual learners cultivates the next generation of confident, literate, and globally ready citizens.

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

For over 20 years, the Sokola Institute has supported Indigenous communities in Sumatra, Indonesia, promoting literacy in learners’ mother tongues. Its Sokola Literacy Education for Indigenous ...

The smart boy should give lessons in speaking cat. Deaf cat Huckleberry learns sign language to communicate with Mom. Both the cat and Mom are new to sign language, but they are progressing ...

Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers. By Emmanuel Morgan Reporting from San ...