If the main goal of a language course is for learners to learn to use the target language more efficiently, fluently and correctly in authentic language use situations, then current scientific ...

Learners with self-regulation skills learn more efficiently – at school and later in life, too. But is that possible with fewer teachers? There’s a shortage of schoolteachers in Germany and worldwide.

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...