VL-JEPA predicts meaning in embeddings, not words, combining visual inputs with eight Llama 3.2 layers to give faster answers ...

Even seemingly innocuous comments on the way that students use dominant local languages can have severe effects on mental health, says Sender Dovchin Zhikai Liu, a Chinese national and student at the ...

Previously, I wrote about the harmful effects of linguistic racism on the mental well-being of international students, in a resource titled Linguistic racism can take a high toll on international ...

As the parent of two teenagers, being a linguist did not adequately prepare me for the strange things that sometimes come out of their mouths. For example, "like" is omnipresent, "hecka" punctuates ...

Ian Cushing receives funding from the Spencer Foundation, the British Educational Research Association, and the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Like so many others who work in education, I ...

International Mother Language Day, celebrated each year on 21 February, is an opportunity to highlight the instrumental role of the languages we inherited in early childhood, whether we call them ...

Identical twins Matthew and Michael Youlden, renowned for their language skills, have achieved a rare linguistic feat, speaking 26 languages, including their secret, self-created language, Umeri.