Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and ...

For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are ...

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 ...

Jean Piaget's ideas about child development continue to influence pedagogical practices around the world. His pioneering work revolutionized our understanding of how children learn and think. Born on ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...