Tag: language learners
TESOL Supports Adult Ed Bill
Senators Reed (D-RI) and Young (R-IN) introduced the Adult Education WORKS Act (S.5202) in efforts to strengthen and expand the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity ACT (WIOA) and the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act...
Language Adapts, Students Adapt—Why Not Language Tests?
Imagine you are trying to build strength. You go to the gym every day, lift weights, and then come home to rest and recover. The next day, you are back at the gym for...
Creating Pathways for Lifelong Learners
In recent years, a number of states have promoted the creation of pathways to make it easier for...
Directory of Best-Practice Programs for Diverse Language Learners
To help connect educational innovations with the learners who want and need them most, the America’s Languages Working Group is launching a first-of-its-kind online resource on March 14. The America’s Languages Portal: Model Programs...
Duolingo Report Suggests Fastest Growing Languages are All Asian
Duolingo’s first-ever Global Language Report was released at the end of 2020, showcasing language learning patterns, trends, and analyses around the world. The data reflects a 12-month time period between October 2019 and September...
Gates Highlights English Learners
During a speech last month at a meeting of the Council of Great City Schools in Cleveland, Ohio, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates outlined a change of direction in his foundation’s approach to education funding...
Adding Madness to Method
Carol Gaab questions the value of traditional teaching methods in the language
classroom
Nothing draws more heated arguments in the field of language instruction than methods. Between trademarks and remarks, there has been much divisive debate...