Shame around writing ability can be a real problem for new students, so let’s make sure feedback encourages their development ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

Learning a second language is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, with millions of people turning to digital tools and ...

In most schools, the beginning of the day is marked by a bell, coming in uniform, and unquestioned. It signals order, ...

Abstract: The introduction of Transformer architectures – with the self-attention mechanism – in automatic Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a breakthrough in solving general task-oriented problems ...

We firmly believe that the best way to learn a language is through extensive exposure to "comprehensible input," the famous "i+1" theory. This means content should be slightly above your current level ...

As part of my Simply Explained series, I’ve been covering a range of student-centered instructional approaches, from project-based learning to experiential and inquiry-based learning. Today, I cover ...

Humans can produce endlessly new sentences, but the mental structures that make this possible may be simpler than long assumed. New research suggests that language relies not only on complex ...

This article critically reassesses the Comprehensible Input (CI) hypothesis in language education by drawing on recent advances in neurolinguistics and an ecological perspective on learning. While the ...

A long-standing characterization of autistic cognition is variously referred to as detail-oriented, local processing bias, bottom-up processing, and weak central coherence. A related construct, ...

Michal Kosinski’s recent study on theory of mind (ToM) tasks given to different large language models (LLMs) (1) is fascinating and offers many insights into the continued evolution and development of ...