This study investigated the cognitive (first language [L1] and foreign language [FL]), linguistic (L1 and FL), and motivational characteristics of weak FL readers in contrast to strong readers in 3 ...

Since 1890, every U.S. census but one has asked about the language characteristics of the U.S. population. This almost uninterrupted data series, however, has been shaped by contemporaneous ...

It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the mainstream of American life.