Learning Science
How the brain learns — and how to apply it to language and life.
The articles in this section are written and synthesised by AI from published research in the fields of learning science and linguistics.
The sources for each article are listed at the end of the piece — do read them, both for a fuller grounding and to satisfy yourself as to their reliability.
How AI creates the illusion of fluency
The session with the AI flowed. You understood everything, you were gently corrected, you closed the laptop feeling it h...
The Myth of Learning Styles
Nearly nine teachers in ten believe that matching a lesson to a student’s learning style helps them learn. When the clai...
How does device overuse affect a child’s capacity to learn?
Does device overuse damage a child’s ability to learn? Yes — but almost entirely through four indirect routes rather tha...
Does personalised learning really beat standardised teaching?
Every education platform promises personalisation, and nearly all of them cite the same number from 1984. That number do...
Immersion or explicit instruction — which works, for whom, and when?
One camp says flood yourself with the language and it will come. The other says learn the grammar first or you will be w...
Will the Language Classroom Return to Traditional Methods to Protect Attention?
After two decades of more screens and more apps, a counter-current is visible: paper notebooks, phone-free rooms, deep r...
The Urban–Rural Gap in Language Learning — and How to Close It
City and countryside children do not start the same race in foreign-language learning. Where the gap comes from — exposu...