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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‘Merkel’ is Now a German Verb
Merkeln is in the lead for the German publishing company Langenscheidt’s annual Youth Word of the Year. Winning by over 20%, the word is...
Preserving Australia’s First Languages
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and the Australian National University (ANU) are teaming up to document...
Community Colleges Go International
According to the Institute for International Education (IIE) Open Doors Report, almost 9% of international students in the U.S. were enrolled at associate-degree granting...
South Africa’s Plans for Chinese Language Education
In the wake of university student protests against multilingual instruction in South Africa, the South African education system announced plans to implement optional Chinese...
Whistled Turkish; or, the Bird Language
Whether a language is spoken, written, or signed with the hands, it is generally agreed that language processing occurs mostly in the left side...
The Relationship Between Sounds and Words in Language
It is a long established characteristic of natural human language that the relationship between the sounds that make up a word and the meaning...
Language Skill Changes Lives in North Korea
As North Korea announced the creation of its own time zone, the leaders of the “hermit country” have again politically distanced themselves from the...
The Rising Demand for Bilingual Teachers
Schools are struggling to provide quality education to an increasing number of students who don't speak English. In the last 25 years, the amount...
Navajo Nation Loosens Language Requirement for Leadership
Recently, the collective voice of the Navajo Nation passed a referendum to change the language requirements for the positions of tribal president and vice...
MIT Study Suggests a Universal Property of Language
Three MIT researchers have investigated the tendency for languages to place words that work together as closely as possible. This property, dubbed the “dependency length...
Voting Rights Act Left Some Less Equal
Language minorities earned voting rights only in 1975
August 6th marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act, signed into law by Lyndon...
Comparison of Expulsion Rates Reveals Bias Against ELLs
A new study from the Regional Education Laboratory Northwest found that English language learners (ELLs) are suspended and expelled at a higher rate than...
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