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Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Westminster The prime minister, David Cameron, wants more Muslim women in the UK to be taught English to reduce segregation between ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the tiers associated with challenging words. Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough ...

Every infant is a natural-born linguist capable of mastering any of the world's 7,000 languages like a native An infant child possesses an amazing, and fleeting, gift: the ability to master a language ...