Ontario Lawmaker Addresses Legislature in Anishininiimowin
A First Nations lawmaker in Ontario, Canada, has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, in a move that repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on...
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Britain’s World Language Crisis
An investigation carried out by U.K.-based The Guardian has revealed the dire state of foreign language education in the country. The report shows that...
Languages for All
INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON BARRIERS TO LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT UMD SEPT. 30
Why aren’t more Americans speaking foreign languages?
The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study...
Love is … multilingualism
Yesterday, the European Commission celebrated the annual European Day of Languages (EDL) by encouraging Europeans to learn how to say “I like you” in 24 languages.
International...
400 Million Chinese Still Can’t Speak Mandarin
About 30% of the Chinese population, or 400 million people, cannot speak Mandarin, according to figures recently released by China's Ministry of Education, despite...
English Language Learners: Shifting to an Asset-Based Paradigm
(Estudiantes del Idioma Inglés: Valorizando los Aportes Que Brindan)
The 37th issue of the Annenberg Institute’s magazine, VUE (voices in urban education) focuses on the...
All Students Benefit from Bilingual Education
Bilingual education programs have a very positive effect on the native English speakers attending schools with such programs even though they do not take...
Bilinguals More Mentally Flexible
Bilingual speakers can switch languages seamlessly, likely developing a higher level of mental flexibility than monolinguals, according to Penn State linguistic researchers.
"In the past,...
Taiwan Goes Native
The Taiwanese Ministry of Education has announced that programs in the nation’s native languages will be compulsory from 2016.
The country’s Minister of Education Chiang...
French Writer Wins Guadalajara Award
Yves Bonnefoy has been awarded the 2013 Guadalajara International Book Fair Prize in Romance Languages for a work dedicated to "the great pillars of...
Celebrate International Literacy Day 2013
Gift a book!
Read to a child!
Donate to a literacy organization!
Learn a new word!
Visit a library!
Literacy is a right and a foundation for lifelong learning,...
Language Learning Alters Brain
According to a joint study by the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro at McGill University and Oxford University, the age at...
Everyone’s Speaking Spanish
According to an analysis of the 2011 American Community Survey by the Pew Research Center, a record 37.6 million people above the age of...
