A Day In Our Shoes

Teaching Pragmatics: How to Teach Pragmatic Language Skills

So many kids (and adults!) struggle with pragmatic language skills due to having autism or another learning disability. Not ...
The Conversation

Reading to improve language skills? Focus on fiction rather than non-fiction

Raymond A. Mar receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. We all know that reading is good for children and for adults, and that we should all be ...
Education Week

Study Backs Dual-Language Pre-Ks for ELLs

Young English-language learners still developing oral and literacy skills in their home languages benefit most from early-childhood programs that regularly expose them to both languages. That’s the ...
The Conversation

Tool use and language skills are linked in the brain – and practising one improves the other

Claudio Brozzoli receives funding from Angence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR) and James S. McDonnell Foundation. Simon Thibault does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...