An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

As a parent, I've invested in both school and private English lessons for my children. But their English skills remain below my expectations, and their performance in other subjects, like math, is ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...