Chinese ‘Linguistic Coup’ in East Africa
As part of its goal to displace American influence, China is winning linguistic hearts in East Africa (a bloc of 300 million people), by...
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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...
Internet Censorship Influences Chinese Language
It has already been established that social media speeds up language evolution, but as the Chinese government actively censors online communities, the country's language...
The Successful Revival of the Chitimacha Language
Only a small portion of the world's 7,000 languages have extensive written records. Those that are the least well-documented are the most in danger...
Iran and the U.S. Look Forward to Academic Exchange
While the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, U.K., U.S. and Germany) dominated the news cycle in July, other...
First U.S. Study on Foreign Language Learning in 30 Years
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the formation of the Commission on Language Learning, a national effort to examine the current...
Students Protest Multilingual Instruction in South Africa
Student protests disrupted classes and led to the cancellation of a career fair at Stellenbosch University in Western Cape, South Africa over a school-wide...
Half of EU Doctors Rejected from UK for Poor English
About a year after the EU’s freedom of movement rules were amended to require medical doctors to pass a language proficiency exam in order...
New Guidelines for EFL Teaching Standards
TESOL Press, the publishing arm of TESOL International Association, has released a new resource for developing professional teaching standards in countries where English is...
Haiti’s Government Backs Native Kreyòl Language
Haiti has two official languages; French and the French-based Hatian Kreyòl. Until recently, education in Haiti was conducted with French as the primary language...
