Features

HomeFeatures

To Support the Science of Reading, Replace Disinformation with Collaboration

My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with dyslexia....

Finding Flaw and Disorder

A child’s linguistic journey can have many complexities that parents may not recognize, especially when navigating the intricacies of multilingualism. Recent research conducted by...

― Advertisement ―

Explore more

$25K Grant Competition for All Colleges in Americas

The 100,000 Strong in the Americas Initiative is offering new grant competitions as the administration’s signature education initiative in the Western Hemisphere designed to...

Let Learning Emerge

Diane Larsen-Freeman applies lessons from complexity theory to language education Complexity theory (CT) deals with complex, dynamic, and nonlinear systems. When I first encountered...

March 2014

Let Learning Emerge Diane Larsen-Freeman applies lessons from complexity theory to language education Empathy Starts in Schools Juan José Vázquez-Caballero argues that it is time for world...

Duncan Recognizes Need for Multilingualism

U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and Libia S. Gil, assistant deputy secretary of the Office of English Language Acquisition in the Department of...

Celebrate International Mother Language Day

"Local languages constitute the majority of languages spoken across our world in the field of science. They are also the most endangered. Excluding languages...

Expolangues 2014

Athina Kontos and Ben Glister re-ignite their passion for language Paris was the place to be for language lovers this month as the annual Expolangues...

Infants, Words, and Income

Bjorn Carey reports on research showing that two-year-old children of lower-income families may already be six months behind in language development Fifty years of research...

February 2014

Teaching Across the Board Margarita Calderón explains why developing a whole-school approach to English learners’ academic achievement is key to Common Core implementation Learning by Extension Jonathan...

First Chinese Degree in Nigeria

The inexorable rise of Chinese in Africa is continuing with Nigeria’s University of Lagos starting its first degree program in Chinese. At least 25...

Cantonese Backlash in Hong Kong

An article on the Hong Kong Education Bureau’s website claiming “Cantonese is not an official language” has been removed after criticism. The article, posted...

Pearson Pays $700 million for Brazilian English Schools

With its $721 million acquisition of Brazil’s Grupo Multi, Pearson has become the market leader in English language education amongst adults in Brazil. Grupo...

300th Anniversary of Spanish Royal Academy

The first session at the Real Academia Española (RAE), or Spanish Royal Academy, was held in Madrid on 3 August 1713. The institution is...

― Advertisement ―

― Advertisement ―

Language Magazine