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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A Timely Tribute to the Teachers Who Change Our Lives
Richard Lederer recognizes the original influencers
One of my favorite newspaper corrections reads: "It was incorrectly reported last Friday that this is T-Shirt Appreciation Week....
Costa Rican Spanish
Like most places, Costa Rica has its own unique words, phrases, and uses of language, so even fluent Spanish speakers can learn something new
¡Pura...
Beginning Bilingual
Approaches to training dual-language preschool teachers in California
For the first time, this fiscal year the California Department of Education awarded $5 million through the...
Amazon’s Alexa to Speak Spanish in the U.S.
Amazon has launched a new voice model for Alexa that lets developers build a Spanish-language interface for Spanish-speaking users. The company announced that the...
Preserving Endangered Poetry
To mark National Poetry Day, the UK’s National Poetry Library launched a project to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages.
Via an international callout,...
Māori People Find Representation in Moana
A new translation of the Disney film Moana has been released in New Zealand. The film was translated by New Zealand native who worked...
Russian Set Backs in Ukraine, Armenia
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a controversial bill that makes Ukrainian the required language of instruction in state secondary schools (from...
No More ‘Foreign Language’ Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors has
approved Oscars rules
for the 92nd Academy Awards, including changing the Foreign Language
Film category...
ELSA: English Language Speech Assistant
ELSA, or English Language Speech Assistant, is a mobile app for language learners that helps to improve pronunciation and reduce accents, using state-of-the-art speech...
Poor Students, Rich Teaching
Solution Tree has released the revised edition of Eric Jensen’s best-selling book, Poor Students, Rich Teaching, along with a companion title, The Handbook for...
Ukrainian President-Elect Unlikely to Lift Russian Status
After actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky's landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections, his campaign spokesperson, Dmytro Razumkov, said that the only official language in...
Reaching English Learners Act Gains Support
TESOL International Association has pledged its support for the bipartisan Reaching English Learners Act (H.R. 1153, S. 545). The legislation would create a grant...
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