Twelve students of varying backgrounds sit down for dinner at two long tables in the kitchen of a Foreign Language Student Residence apartment north-east of the BYU campus.

The researchers asked participants to listen to a set of nonsense words – for example, "muh-keh" and "beh-od" – representing an artificial "language". They then listened to a second set of words.

In Europe, nine out of 10 students study a foreign language. In the United States, only one in five does. From 1997 to 2008, the number of American middle schools offering foreign languages ...

Most colleges and universities are clear about the underlying rationale for their language requirement. Take for example, Columbia University’s undergraduate requirement. The foreign language ...

Foreign language reduces the rate of racism among people, forgetting about color or race. A Portuguese will always embrace an African that can speak Portuguese language because he will be seen as ...

There may be employees in the school—perhaps bus drivers or paraprofessionals, for example—with unique language skills that the district can support in getting teaching credentials, Anderton said.

The world has changed a lot since the summer of 1991. But there are still reasons for us to invest in foreign language studies. Despite the global pre-eminence of English and the growing ...