In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

Like many, I lost the ability to write fluid cursive, and my kids don’t care to learn it either. What does the loss of this ...

To develop fluency, teachers are encouraging students with English as an additional language to put pen to paper Handwriting may be out of fashion in the digital age, but for pupils whose mother ...

Should you be concerned about the current rage for keyboards in kindergarten to replace crayons, pencils, and paper? Are you worried if your third grader can’t write or read their name in cursive?

The University of Michigan offers classes in about 50 of the more than 7,000 known living languages. While several of these languages are written as variations of the Latin alphabet, others are ...

OVER at Language Log, a reader catches a Daily Mail writer saying that the Gobeki Temple, built around 11,000 years ago, "was put up long before humans mastered language". Mark Liberman replies, ...

Here's how the number of pen strokes and lettering size could convey the general health of your brain.