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Language Teacher vs. Acquisition Facilitator

Carol Gaab focuses on the learners in front of her, not on a method, a curriculum, or a plan Fill in the blank with the...

California Bill to Battle Bilingual Teacher Shortage

Working to support bilingual students in one of...

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No Benefit to Segregating English Learners

Grouping English learners (ELs) together in classrooms has no impact—positive or negative—on reading development for elementary school students, according to a new study by...

The Future of Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating exciting new opportunities...

California Bill to Battle Bilingual Teacher Shortage

Working to support bilingual students in one of...

Cambridge to Install Indigenous Street Signs

Cambridge Massachusetts, home to Harvard University, , is erecting signs displaying street names in the native language of the Massachusett Tribe are going up....

Russian Schools Begin to Offer Swahili and Amharic

In Russia's capital Moscow, three schools have introduced the teaching of either Swahili or Amharic as a second foreign language this fall. According to Sputnik...

Campaign for Official Recognition of Catalan

The Catalan government has launched a Europe-wide PR campaign in the midst of negotiations to reform the list of official European Union (EU) languages....

Mandarin Learning Boom in Rwanda

As relations between China and many African countries strengthen, a Mandarin learning is booming all over the continent.  In Rwanda, Chinese languages are gaining prominence...

Latinos’ View of Spanish in the USA

Last month, the Pew Research Center released the...

Universidad de Salamanca hosts Dia de las Lenguas Africanas

On October 20, the Faculty of Philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain is hosting Dia de las Lenguas Africanas, or the Day...

Mali drops French as an official language

In a constitutional change, Mali, the eighth-largest country in Africa, has dropped French—its official language since 1960. The new constitution is reported as having an...

Sign officially becomes South Africa’s 12th language

Last month in Pretoria, South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa made sign language the 12th official language during an official ceremony at the Union Buildings. The...

Non-Native Speakers Failing on English Medium Courses in Sweden

A new study by Swedish language researchers has suggested a marked negative impact on students in higher education when taught in English, if they...

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