This paper sets out to investigate the role of affective and personality factors in learning Arabic as a foreign and, to a much lesser extent, second language by considering the experiences and ...

Associate Professor Yevgeniya Shishova offered her take on the matter in XLinguae. The problem of language acquisition is one of the complicated psychological topics. Teacher education experts are ...

Can learning a language rewire your brain? As our species evolved parts of our brain expanded, resulting in more computing power for language. It’s what makes us hard-wired for communication. What is ...

Born in Barcelona but raised by Filipino parents, and now living in London, I’ve always been surrounded by different cultures and languages. As I’ve learned languages and expanded my vocabulary, I’ve ...

Two research groups in the 1970s pushed forward the view that the most meaningful aspects of human personality can be captured using five major dimensions, and the Big 5 was born.