WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...

In an increasingly globalized job market, multilingual skills can give job seekers a significant edge. Knowing how to describe your levels of language for resume purposes accurately ensures employers ...

Monika Schmid receives funding from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the ESRC. For one thing, the words “fluency” or “fluent” never even appear in the original study, published ...

It doesn’t seem fair. You struggle for years trying to learn a new language while a child can come back from a summer in another country having completely mastered it. Children are built for language ...