As someone who has been learning Spanish most of my life, I know it can be challenging and scary to speak in a new language. And I’ve seen my English-language-learner students experience similar ...

A key strength of the science of reading approach is its focus on the development on both language (speaking) and literacy (reading) within the same instructional space.

Google is adding a new "Speaking practice" tool to Search that aims to help English learners practice the language.

Buddy.ai is an animated, multimodal, conversational character tutor meant to help children learn English as a second language. The company works as a subscription app that consumers can download.

This introduction to the special issue provides an overview of the role of practice in a second language (L2) from both pedagogical and theoretical perspectives. The following 5 areas of research are ...

Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills.

The adult school received the Promising Practice Award, which honors strategies that improve outcomes for adult learners and can serve as models for other institutions.

We present a theoretical framework from cognitive psychology (desirable difficulty framework) and link it to the ideas of second language (L2) difficulty. We argue that practice condition, linguistic ...