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Cutting to the Common Core Fostering Academic Interaction Kate Kinsella offers an action plan to encourage second language learners to participate in constructive classroom discussion Stories Bring It Home Kate Nguyen and Nile Stanley research resilience...

Let Learning Emerge Diane Larsen-Freeman applies lessons from complexity theory to language education Empathy Starts in Schools Juan José Vázquez-Caballero argues that it is time for world language teachers to fill the cultural deficit Cutting to the Common...

Strange Bedfellows Julie Gordon chronicles the efforts of linguists, indigenous communities, and Google to create a comprehensive online information source on endangered languages Speaking in Our Defense David Edwards reflects on the first year’s work of...

Creating Your Own Space Mindy Broderick raves about the functionality of Wikispaces for language classes Talking in the Library Jason Teshuba describes how access to online language learning programs is invigorating America’s libraries Recognizing the Learner Nile Stanley and...

Redrawing the Political Langscape Now that the Republicans have chosen their Presidential candidate and the Democratic contest is reaching its climax, political analysts across America are searching for demographic indicators to help predict the...

The Communication Revolution As dictators topple across North Africa into the Middle East, and new uprisings coalesce on almost a daily basis, one of the most striking aspects of this new revolutionary wave is the...

Keeping the Message Clear President Obama’s appointment of Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana as assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the Department of Education represents an enormous opportunity for English language educators. For...

IN THIS ISSUE: The World as We Speak Our forum for changes in world language Squeezing California Schools Karling Aguilera-Fort believes that California’s Year of Education should be renamed the Year of Increasing Disservice to Language Learners...