To answer this question and determine how adult language learning influences plasticity and lateralization, they used functional magnetic resonance technology (fMRI) to compare the brain activity ...

To some, that might sound like self-imposed homework, but Shoener, a language lover and the copy chief for Reader’s Digest ...

Why Learning a Language as an Adult Is Challenging John Grundy is a neuroscientist who studies brain plasticity and bilingualism at Iowa State University. He explains that one of the biggest ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

But now, roughly $716 million in funding for these programs may be at risk because the Trump administration is withholding ...

Adult literary education programs from Western Massachusetts to Cape Cod received grants, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

A common thing you'll hear monolingual adults saying whenever discussing potentially learning a second language is that they lament not having done so as a child when it is easier. But the truth is, ...

Why kids have an easier time learning a new language 02:31. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Many of us wish we could learn another language.It seems young kids have no problem picking up a second or third ...