At the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International Education, in January, which I attended, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings set out to make ...

Language acquisition in humans relies on abilities like abstraction and use of syntactic rules, which are absent in other animals. The neural correlate of acquiring new linguistic competence was ...

This promotion of linguistic competence can be supported by means of scaffolding techniques. What should I do as a teacher to develop such a support system? The Australian linguistics and education ...

When learning a specialist subject it is necessary to use specific language skills, alongside the specialist language content. However, children from educationally deprived backgrounds or those with ...