Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 43, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: New educational researchers in the UK (August 2017), pp. 462-481 (20 pages) The current longitudinal study examines the similarities and ...

The study investigates the effect of language learning strategies in teaching toponyms in Kazakh and Nogai languages on students' achievement and attitudes. The study was conducted at a university's ...

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Everyone knows that picking up a second language grows more difficult with age. And in a new study, scientists have pinpointed the age at which your chances of reaching total fluency plummet: 10. The ...

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Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

A popular stereotype of Americans traveling abroad is the tourist who is at a loss when it comes to coping with any language other than English. Fair or not, the fact is that while the U.S. does not ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SRG23\230787) which supported the research project reported here. If you’ve always wanted to learn a new ...

Christopher Timothy McGuirk does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...