Tag: languagelearning
‘Shark Tank’ for Language Apps
Next weekend, the Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center (Tech Center) in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa will be hosting its own virtual version of the...
Getting Real with Translation & Interpreting
Caitilin Walsh suggests 11 resources to bring Translation and Interpreting to life in your online classroom
In an educational landscape so dominated by talk of STEM—purportedly to prepare our students for technologically-influenced jobs—world language teachers...
Connecting the Dots
Whatever the outcome of this month’s U.S. election and however bad the second wave of COVID-19 hits this winter, our world will continue to become more interconnected and more interdependent. Despite the closing of...
Multinational Call to Invest in Language Education
“Clear and precise communication is more crucial than ever before to the health and security of every nation.”
For the first time in their histories, five international academies have joined together to ask for increased...
Early Literacy Especially Important for ELLs
A new study from Oregon State University (OSU) shows that English learners are more likely to become proficient English speakers if they enter kindergarten with a strong initial grasp of academic language literacy, either in...
Act for a Multilingual America
Leaders from Business, Government, Academia, and the Arts Call for Improved Access to Language Education
In support of its recent report, America’s Languages: Investing...
Global California 2030
California's Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today launched Global California 2030, which is a call to action "to vastly expand the teaching and learning of world languages and the number of students proficient...
FY 2018 LRC Program Competition
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRC)...
Early Language Key to School Success
Kim Echart of the University of Washington News reports on a new study which shows that early use of words and grammar determine overall student success
A new study indicates that children’s language skills...
Reports of OELA’s Demise Hopefully Exaggerated
Advocacy groups are denouncing a proposed merging of the federal Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) into the Office for Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). Education Department officials have said that the restructuring plan...