Early language programs should focus on students communicating ideas in real ways: understanding and communicating meaning – and transferring vocabulary and language skills to convey other ideas.

This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in Rachel Giora's book On our mind. It is argued that these claims may give second language researchers the chance to ...

Second Language Research, Vol. 34, No. 1, Special issue: Neurolinguistics and the Language Classroom (January 2018), pp. 67-101 (35 pages) In order to understand variability in second language (L2) ...

A memorable scene from the first season of Louie shows Louis CK and his male comedy friends playing a game of poker that devolves into a discussion of gay men. Amidst jokes and some homophobia comes ...

A startup called Live Mocha, based in Bellevue, WA, aims to harness the power of online social networking to help language students learn and stay motivated. The site, launched in late September at ...