Ukraine Focuses on Minority Languages
Last month, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, in cooperation with the European Union and the Council of Europe, organized a round...
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Celebrate Teachers with Teacher Appreciation!
May 7th National Teacher Day, and May 5-11 is 2019's Teacher Appreciation Week. PTA launched a campaign, #ThankATeacher. They are urging students and education...
Leveled Readers
The benefits of free, voluntary reading are undeniable, but finding books that are interesting and exciting without being too advanced can be a challenge....
Getting Personal
Nick Gaehde and Liz Brooke discuss Lexia Learning’s solutions for diverse classrooms and tell us what to expect next
Daniel Ward: We’ve gone through a...
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...
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