New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. Parents hoping to raise bilingual children have long been given the advice to ...

If we truly care about children, we must care about their families. That means building policies that center family unity, ...

When a family loses a loved one due to another party’s negligence, the grief is often overwhelming—but for families with limited English proficiency, that grief is compounded by confusion, fear, and ...

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How schools can better speak the languages of their students’ families. You wouldn’t advise administrators to wait until a student who uses a wheelchair enrolls in a school to start building an access ...

Of the Indian languages, I grew up only speaking Hindi. I had no idea what my family's second, regional language was. When I asked my father, his answer puzzled me.

An international team of linguists has developed a novel approach for testing genealogical relations among language families, revealing new insights into the history of languages native to the Amazon ...

Indo-European languages form the largest family, if those who speak them as a second language are included — with 12 main branches ranging historically from northwestern China to western Europe.