The Hispanic community faces a unique and complex challenge: the art of code-switching. This linguistic duality allows us to navigate a world where cultural identity, professional advancement and ...

Alfaro, Ph.D., is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of multilingual and global education at San Diego State University. She lives in Escondido. The visceral and powerful ...

A team of researchers has uncovered the distinct computations that occur when we switch between different languages, a finding that provides new insights into the nature of bilingualism. A team of ...

Interests: Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology including language and gender, language and ethnicity, bilingualism and code-switching, the ethnography of speaking and performance, ...

A new study shows that while Czech speakers are immune to specific grammar illusions in their mother tongue, they ...

Teresa Parodi has received funding from the AHRC and the University of Cambridge. Affiliation: University of Cambridge. She is a researcher with Cambridge Bilingualism Network. We live in a world of ...

Bilingual children outperform children who speak only one language in problem-solving skills and creative thinking, according to new research. Bilingual children outperform children who speak only one ...

People who spoke two languages daily in their youth tended to score higher on memory tests later in life, the researchers found. By Jaya Padmanabhan Speaking two languages provides the enviable ...

Who are these children, their families, and communities? U.S. language diversity ; Immigrant students--U.S. schools ; English acquisition and bilingualism in the U.S. context -- Bilingualism is not ...