We need to stop telling our students to have their essays checked by a native English speaker. It doesn’t help them, sometimes harms them, and perpetuates a false narrative about writing and language.

English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English — the majority of people around the world ...

The English language left its borders of origin in Britain long ago. It has been exported throughout the world through colonisation, travel and media. This process has created not one English, spoken ...

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain ...

For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication. But the actual production of knowledge continues to be a multilingual enterprise. The use of English as the ...

The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in specific parts of the brain’s ...

COLUMBIA — When students across South Carolina sat for their state standardized tests in May, tens of thousands were looking at math problems or science questions that weren't in their native tongue.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Native Camp Inc., the operator of Japan’s largest online English conversation platform “Native Camp,” has officially launched its services in Brazil. With over 3 million ...