California Bill Requiring Kindergarten Exempts Early English Testing
Parallel California Assembly (2226) and Senate (1056) Bills have been introduced that would require children to attend one year of kindergarten before enrolling in...
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French in ‘Mortal Danger’ of Gender Neutrality
The Académie Française, the world’s authority on the French language, has issued a bleak warning against “inclusive writing” which promotes the use of gender-neutral...
NSW Australia Passes First Aboriginal Languages Bill
New South Wales (NSW) recently passed legislation that acknowledges the value of indigenous language, and the importance it holds to the country’s First Peoples and...
Dutch Courage? Alcohol May Actually Help Improve Foreign-Language Skills
It’s a popular belief that alcohol helps improve speaking skills for a foreign language, but the belief can be easily passed off as a...
Dual Language Learners Lacking in Preschool
The Migration Policy Institute and the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy have released a new report on the young Dual Language Learner (DLL)...
Study reveals how bilinguals use emoticons to find consensus
UAlbany professor part of team looking at collaboration among astrophysicists in the United States and France
Co-authors on the article are Cecilia R. Aragon and...
Tailoring Instruction
Digital assessment helps a California
district ( SBCUSD ) to adapt to student needs.
By 2025, one in four public school students will be an English language...
Mothers Across Languages Use Similar Tones With Babies
A new study shows that mothers change the timbre of their voices when speaking to babies, no matter what language they speak. The study...
Italian Language Week Celebration Begins
The 17th Annual Week of the Italian Language in the World from October 16-21, 2017 is a cultural event which promotes Italian not only...
Increasing Communication Through Sister-School Programs
Kristal Bivona on how increased access to communications technology through sister schools has created new ways schools can use to develop international partnerships
Among the...
$3 Million for Irish Language
Irish language groups have received increased funding. According to the Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe’s budget speech, the Department is allocating new funds to...
US Leaves Education, Science, Culture Organization
Following in President Reagan’s footsteps, the Trump administration has announced the U.S. intention to withdraw from United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in...
French President Launches New Bilingual Fund
French president Emmanuel Macron personally launched a new fund to support French-English bilingual programs in the U.S. on September 20 during his trip to...
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