Two Teams Share $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE
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XPRIZE, in partnership with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, has announced two grand...
Feb. 14 Deadline for Minority Study Abroad Scholarship
The Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, which is co-sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), is...
Google Splashes Out on Super Bowl Ad Focusing on Language
Genevieve Finn reports on the tech giant's moves in machine translation and interpretation
Google is banking on its interpreter taking off
Google used one of...
Grant Opportunity: GAR’s Educator Initiative Grant (EIG) Program
GAR’s Educator Initiative Grant (EIG) Program is an annual program separate and distinct from the foundation’s regular grant-making in the area of...
Personalize Literacy and Language Instruction with OverDrive E-Books and Audiobooks
OverDrive offers teachers an ever-growing collection of tools for literacy and language instruction and access to an extensive digital library of e-books and audiobooks. The digital library...
Second Edition of New Ways in Teaching Speaking
TESOL Press, the publishing division of TESOL International Association, recently released the much-anticipated second
edition of the New Ways in
Teaching Speaking. Edited by Julie Vorholt, this latest addition...
Helpful Resources for Preservice and In-Service Teachers and Academics
Routledge’s books for K–12 world language teachers include The World Language Teacher’s Guide to Active Learning, 2nd Edition: Strategies and Activities for Increasing Student...
Transitioning to Standards-Based Classrooms
In A Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning, published by Marzano Research, authors Tammy Heflebower, Jan K. Hoegh, Philip B. Warrick, and Jeff Flygare detail...
Prereading: Priming the Pump
Have you ever read a book and laughed out loud? Has a book or other text ever made you cry, get angry, or feel scared? If you are reading Language Magazine, the odds are...
Have Fun Learning
If kids are having fun while learning a language, it is much more likely they will enjoy it and want to keep learning. One language-learning startup that takes this to heart is Linguacious, an...