Ukraine Focuses on Minority Languages
Last month, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in cooperation with the European Union and the Council of Europe, organized a round...
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Tell the President how to improve US immigration
President Obama has issued a new directive for his Administration to seek out ways to modernize and streamline the U.S. immigration system within existing...
China to train 30,000 overseas language teachers by 2017
Earlier this month, plans to train about 30,000 overseas Chinese teachers by the end of 2017 were announced at the Third World Chinese Language...
Turkish at Crossroads between Europe and Asia
Last week, Turkey’s National Education Council voted to make the teaching of Ottoman Turkish compulsory in high schools. In 1928, Ataturk, the founder of...
ELLs ‘Disconnected’ from Mainstream Content
Research that explores the relationship between school-district infrastructure in new-immigrant destinations and the marginalization of English-language learners (ELLs) in those districts shows that in...
Learning Languages Modifies Brain Network
According to a Sino-American study published recently in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, learning a new language changes your brain network both structurally and functionally.
"Learning...
China Punishes Wordplay
You can’t speak pǔntōnghuà in China.
The Chinese Administration of Radio, Press, and Publications is not amused by rampant puns in advertising, television and the...
Comedian Named UK Language Champion
Emmy award-winning comedian and actor Eddie Izzard has been chosen as the UK’s 2014 “public language champion” by judges from The Guardian newspaper and...
Texts Increase Parental Involvement
Parent involvement in literacy varies widely by household, but a new study by Stanford researchers shows that an early literacy text messaging program for...
Immigration ‘Raising Academic Standards’
The British education minister, Nick Gibb, is insisting that immigration is raising academic standards in the UK because pupils who speak English as a...
Bilinguals Better Equipped to Process Information
Speaking more than one language is good for the brain, according to new research that indicates bilingual speakers process information more efficiently and...
New U.S. ‘World-Readiness’ Standards
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in conjunction with its partner organizations of the Standards Collaborative Board, will introduce the...
Celebrate International Education Week
Today marks the beginning of the 15th annual International Education Week – an opportunity to celebrate international education and global exchange.
This joint initiative of...
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