Learning Chinese Stimulates Both Temporal Lobes
New evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not developed by learning...
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Calls to Promote and Protect Arabic
In Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, told the Federal National Council (FNC)-the legislature of the...
Kazakhstan Spells Out Script Swap
Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev has announced a timeline to switch the country's writing system over from the Cyrillic to the Latin script with full implementation...
Senate Votes to Roll Back ESSA
Despite a passionate appeal by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate has voted in...
Shooting in the Dark
The administration’s proposed FY 2018 budget seeks to cut the Education Department’s $68 billion budget by $9 billion, or 13%, while increasing defense spending...
Parallel Learning Lines
Languages Develop Simultaneously But Independently in Young Bilinguals
A new study of Spanish-English bilingual children by researchers at Florida Atlantic University published in the journal Developmental...
Prince Edward Island Fighting to Support French
One of eastern Canada’s maritime provinces off New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island (PEI), is fighting to protect French language schools...
Netflix Unveils Subtitling Test and Spanish-Language Drama
Nearly half of the Netflix’s 93 million subscribers now come from outside of the US., so soon, English will no longer be platform’s dominant...
Help Your Students Slide Up, Not Down, Over the Summer
During the summer months, young children lose literacy gains made during the school year,...
Helping Bilingual Researchers
Melanie Curl demonstrates how using youth-friendly databases helps increase literacy among English language learner
In classrooms that include both English language learners (ELLs) and native...
Budget Cuts Fly in the Face of Education
While boosting defense spending by $54 billion, the Trump administration’s proposed FY 2018 budget seeks to cut the Education Department’s $68 billion budget by...
Age No Barrier to Bilingualism
A new study, titled “Late Bilinguals Are Sensitive to Unique Aspects of Second Language Processing: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Word Order,” asks whether...
A Futile War
Ross Thorburn rejects the illogical insistence upon banning mother tongues in the second-language classroom
The War on Drugs
In 1998, the United Nations decided that it...
