As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Common house cats possess the ability to associate human words with images without prompting or reward, new research conducted by animal scientists at Azabu University in Japan has revealed. This ...

Eavesdropping “genius dogs” are able to learn names for objects by overhearing their owners, according to groundbreaking new ...

Word of the Day for School Assembly: Adding a "Word of the Day" to school assemblies is a fun and helpful way to grow students vocabulary. Here we've shared a list of more than 20 useful words.

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

When learning a foreign language, most people fall back on traditional methods: reading, writing, listening and repeating. But if you also gesture with your arms while studying, you can remember the ...

“The lexicon of a foreign language is like a map of a country you’ve never been to,” says psychologist Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. While travelers tend to think that seeing ...

If you have seen Wally the Golden Retriever before, you know he is this big, soft dog, but his newest video on Instagram ...