Tag: english
EdShed Literacy Resources
Spelling Shed offers teachers with a fun way to deliver weekly spelling tests and a variety of activities for students to practice their words, providing teachers with a full spelling curriculum for each grade...
But You’re Not What We’re Looking For
GUANGZHOU PART TIME8 a.m.–11 a.m. Monday–FridayLocated near Yuancun metro stationNonnatives with a good accent areacceptedWhite onlyPay negotiable
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Native English speakers from Canada, the...
House Offers Support to Seal of Bilingual Education
In what is being hailed as a major step forward for language education across the United States, the House of Representatives voted to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Sept. 24. The...
Questioning the Test
University admissions officers and faculty strive to recruit and admit students who, either at the time of admittance or after additional English language preparation, possess a level of English language ability that will enable...
South African and European Universities Form Consortium to Boost Use of Indigenous Languages
South Africa’s university system notoriously lacks instructional programs offered in the nation’s Indigenous languages, like isiXhosa and Sesotho. Currently, English and Afrikaans are the only languages widely used in university-level coursework, however even Afrikaans’...
Helsinki Mayor Floats Idea of English-Language City
Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish. The government also recognizes an additional handful of regional languages like Sámi or Karelian, as well as local signed languages—of all the languages with some sort...
English on the Rise in Singapore
It’s no secret that English is the most widely spoken language on the planet—with a native speaker population of 370 million and a learner population of 1.5 billion worldwide, the language remains on an...
Rumi in the Language Classroom: Misscaffolding
Rumi in the Language Classroom Vol 8
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In this eighth volume, the story of “a policeman and...
Creating Community Connections
On March 13, 2020, when the seriousness of the coronavirus hit our campus, classes, lectures, programs, conferences, and celebrations had to be cancelled or reinvented. Faculty, staff, and students received that same night the...
Celebrating the Linguistic Self
Last spring, as the pandemic raged on outside my student dorm, I found myself mentally chained to the desk where I would now have to undertake fieldwork for my master’s degree in second-language education...