Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the university where Tanya Wright is an associate professor. She works at Michigan State University. Matthews, Mo. What do you do when hear a word ...

The March 20 article, “Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough,” made me think back to my early days as a curriculum writer. I was drafting a lesson on the figurative ...

There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is equally crucial, ...

Language immersion programs present a range of opportunities and challenges for practitioners. Many language teachers welcome the opportunity to create an immersive language environment in which their ...

When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the sounds, that is. But although I could and still can decode these words, I can’t ...

Language comprehension and sentence processing represent central pillars in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, addressing the mechanisms by which humans interpret linguistic input. The ...