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ALAS Accepting Applications for its Leadership Academies

The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) is accepting applications now through April 15, 2024 for its Superintendents Leadership Academy (SLA) and National...

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Last Speaker of Mandan Language Dies

85-year-old Edwin Benson of Twin Buttes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota has died, taking the Mandan language with him. Benson was...

U.S. Language Capacity ‘Diminishing,’ Despite Need

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has released a report today that suggests a “diminishing share” of U.S. residents speak languages other than...

Positive Language Decreasing In American-English Speech

A new study has found that positive language used by Americans is on the decline. A new study conducted by researches at USC Dornsife...

Billion Won Funds New Center for Critical Korean Studies

The University of California, Irvine is launching a Center for Critical Korean Studies funded by a 1 billion-won grant (about $850,000) from the Academy...

English Proficiency Test Coming to China

China will introduce a National English Proficiency Test by 2020 as implemented by China’s State Council. The council set out the national foreign language...

English and Portuguese Brains ‘Read’ Alike

An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain “reads” or decodes a sentence in English or Portuguese,...

Canadian Conservatives Hold Bilingual Debate

The 14 official candidates of the Canadian Conservative party will have their dual-language skills tested live tonight (December 6)  at the first official bilingual...

Labor Unrest in Cameroon Erupts from Language Discrimination

Violence between Cameroon’s French and English speakers has boiled over due to discrimination by French speakers in minority English-speaking regions. Volatile clashes with police...

Arrival Decodes Linguistic Profession

The recent blockbuster Arrival has linguists in the forefront. Amy Adams plays the protagonist, Louise Banks, an academic field researcher who is recruited by...

Miao Discovered In Cave Carvings

After six years of research, archeologists have confirmed that inscriptions found among cliffs in the Hunan Province are of the Miao language. Miao is...

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year 2016 is POST-TRUTH

post-truth adjective Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. Oxford...

This is International Education Week!

Celebrate International Education Week with NAFSA: Association of International Educators. NAFSA is focusing on the benefits of international education and exchange and says their...

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