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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What Does Good Blended Learning Look Like?
Stephen Noonoo shares best practices for blended learning...
Competition Launches Arabic Literacy Apps for War-Affected Syrian Children
Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster, the two winners of the EduApp4Syria innovation competition, were announced today and then released worldwide as...
Poly Aims to Share ALL the World’s Languages
Poly began after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year as an open source, modern software built to share and learn languages in text and...
ASL Pioneer Immortalized
On April 11, the U.S. Postal Service will release the16th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series, honoring Robert Panara (1920-2014), an influential teacher and...
Taking Teaching to New Heights
Denise Murray examines the future of the TESOL profession in preparation for next month’s international summit
What are the megatrends (political, economic, social, intercultural, legal,...
Want a Job? Study Says to Learn Another Language.
Those who speak other languages may want to highlight that fact on their resumes, as customers in the U.S. are becoming increasingly diverse and...
Speaking of the Ice Age
University of Virginia linguistic anthropologist Mark A. Sicoli and colleagues are applying the latest technology to an ancient mystery: how and when early humans...
Senate Votes Against Civil Rights of American Students
Despite a passionate appeal by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate has voted in favor of rolling back critical regulations of the ESSA (Every...
Apple’s Siri Learns Shanghainese in Ongoing Race to Dominate Voice-Assist
Last week we saw the release of Google Assistant, an electronic assistant that...
Books and Events Celebrate International Women’s Day
Nonprofit organization, Worldreader has announced that they have reached over 2.5 million women and girls with life-changing books since 2010. Worldreader works with over...
