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Multilingual Exposure Improves Children’s Social Skills
Empathy Increases with Linguistic Experience
Young children only have to hear more than one language spoken at home to become better communicators, a new study...
A Two-Generation Approach for ELL Education
A recent study by the Center for American Progress suggests that a two-generation approach is the best way to help educate English Language Learners...
The Ableism of Everyday Language
Microaggressions are defined as “brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership.” This definition comes from psychologist...
International Students Protest in Ireland
After a wave of school closures, students took to the streets in Dublin to protest exploitation and chaos in international education
Ireland is a popular...
Language Hits the Hill
Today, over 70 delegates from across the U.S. are in Washington to meet with their representatives in Congress to ask for more federal support...
Elfdalian Language Helps Norse Historians
All of the Nordic languages; Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are descended from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings. These languages have...
May The Fourth Be With You, In Navajo
The anticipation for the upcoming addition to the Star Wars movie franchise makes this year's Star Wars Day particularly lively. According to the origin...
Social Media Speeds Up Language Evolution
John Sutherland, a professor of English from University College London, led a study that confirmed the English Language is evolving faster than ever due...
The Changing Conflict of the Common Core
A recent paper on the importance of policy implementation as it relates to educational standards by Ashley Jochim and Lesley Lavery explores the creation and implementation...
Bilingualism delays Alzheimer’s by at least four years
A recent study at Belgium's Ghent University has established that the symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD) manifest themselves about four to five years later...
Scottish Businesses Call for Compulsory Foreign Language Education
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has pinpointed Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic and Russian as “international languages of business” and is calling for...
Texas Protects Dual Language Education
Texas has been an advocate for dual language education since 1973 when former Governor Dolph Briscoe signed into law the Bilingual Education and Training Act,...
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