Bilingualism has always been a major part of my identity. I grew up in Madrid, so Spanish is my native language, but my father enrolled my brothers and I into a school that spoke predominantly English ...

If you define "knowledge" to be the deeply rooted fundamental structure of the language which allows you to produce and understand it in the first place, and "use" as any concrete instance of it, such ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or "language loss," among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it's ...

Last fall, University junior Lindsey Dombras spent more than three months studying in Morelia, Mexico, speaking almost entirely Spanish during her time there. She became fluent in her second language, ...

Over the years, I have written several posts on the impact that major life changes can have on the languages of bilinguals. Events such as changing schools or employment, moving to another region or ...