It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Department of Foreign Languages, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, China. Driven by globalization, social media has become a key field for cross-cultural communication. Since 2019, the U.S. government, ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Giosuè Baggio is in the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim NO-7491, Norway. Binz et al. explore horizontal integration ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

This study focuses on the application of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) in Integrated English classroom instruction. As a “learning by doing” language teaching method that emerged in the 1980s, ...

In this article, we provide a response to the article published in Language Magazine on Oct. 2, 2024, in which authors Jennifer Pendergrass, Tabatha Tierce, and David L. Chiesa were critiquing the ...

AI research aims to develop autonomous agents that can adaptively operate in complex social environments. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods, however, face significant challenges in ...