Tag: students
Success from the Student Perspective
The many components of a successful English as a second language (ESL) program became apparent to me watching students thrive in a neighborhood public...
Is Accent in the Mind of the Listener?
Ashtari (2014) reported that intermediate and advanced students of English as a second language (ESL) at a California university felt that many native speakers...
Family Advice
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s recent report Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s Students: “For many elementary...
A Destination of Choice in Unprecedented Times
At the outset of the COVID pandemic last spring, public schools across Canada shifted to virtual/remote delivery remarkably well and expediently. Some of the...
IFLE Now Accepting Applications for Business and International Education Program
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the fiscal year (FY)...
Help Your Students Slide Up, Not Down, Over the Summer
During the summer months, young children lose literacy gains made during the school year, a phenomenon known as “summer slide.” The most ...
Where Do Students Store New Vocabulary?
A study on word learning recently published in Neuropsychologia is shedding light on the age-old question of how language learners’ minds store the target...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper,...
Joy in the Time of COVID
In these challenging times, it seems that we are all yearning for some way to incorporate moments of joy into our lives. Some have...
Elite Language Students Focus on Community Service
Even during these challenging times, language students contribute to the greater good. I recently attended (via Zoom, of course) the award ceremony of the...
