Language Teacher vs. Acquisition Facilitator
Carol Gaab focuses on the learners in front of her, not on a method, a curriculum, or a plan
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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...
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...
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...
