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The Home Run Book Experience
Vinnie Jordan Henkin and Stephen Krashen chronicle the Naruto Breakthrough: How the discovery of manga books was a catalyst in the English language development of a teen
The concept of the home run book was...
Namer of Thrones
Game of Thrones’ language creator, David J. Peterson, details his extraordinary career as Hollywood’s linguist-in-chief
Best known for creating the fictional languages for hit series such as Game of Thrones, Defiance, and The 100, Peterson...
California Supports Leaders in ELL Education
The 2014 California Language Census found that over 22% of California public school students are English language learners (ELLs) and over 43% speak a language other than English at home. The California Department of...
Voting Rights Act Left Some Less Equal
Language minorities earned voting rights only in 1975
August 6th marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act, signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson following the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama...
Students Protest Multilingual Instruction in South Africa
Student protests disrupted classes and led to the cancellation of a career fair at Stellenbosch University in Western Cape, South Africa over a school-wide language policy that gives Afrikaans and English equal status as...
Global Spanish
One of the best things about learning Spanish is the diversity of places in which it is spoken — and taught
Spanish is one of the ten main languages of the internet, meaning that a...
Spanish as a Vehicle for Social Change
Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward discuss the movements and histories that made Spanish such an important language for activism
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido...
U.S.-based activists, whether Latin or not, have likely heard...
Foreign Language Requirements Lead to Multilingualism
Comparative study of U.S. and Europe shows correlation between language requirements and multilingualism
A Pew Research Center study on foreign language education in the U.S. compared to Europe points out that while the U.S. has...
Telling Stories
Stephen Krashen on what to do and what not to do when reading aloud
Thanks in large part to the success of Jim Trealease’s Read-Aloud Handbook, now in its 7th edition, reading aloud has become...
July 2015
American Independence
Could Spanglish become America’s own common language?
The news that there are more Spanish speakers in the U.S. than in Spain (see page 14) may not surprise many Americans, but when it’s combined with...
