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Comedian Named UK Language Champion
Emmy award-winning comedian and actor Eddie Izzard has been chosen as the UK’s 2014 “public language champion” by judges from The Guardian newspaper and...
Texts Increase Parental Involvement
Parent involvement in literacy varies widely by household, but a new study by Stanford researchers shows that an early literacy text messaging program for...
Immigration ‘Raising Academic Standards’
The British education minister, Nick Gibb, is insisting that immigration is raising academic standards in the UK because pupils who speak English as a...
Bilinguals Better Equipped to Process Information
Speaking more than one language is good for the brain, according to new research that indicates bilingual speakers process information more efficiently and...
New U.S. ‘World-Readiness’ Standards
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in conjunction with its partner organizations of the Standards Collaborative Board, will introduce the...
Celebrate International Education Week
Today marks the beginning of the 15th annual International Education Week – an opportunity to celebrate international education and global exchange.
This joint initiative of...
Fun Ideas for Family Literacy Month
November is Family Literacy Month, and the National Center for Families Learning is promoting their guide to 30 Days of Families Learning. The...
Sex, Chocolate, and Vocab
Learning new words stimulates the same brain center as such long-proven means of deriving pleasure, as having sex, gambling or eating chocolate, according to...
British Language Festival Launches
The British Academy and the Guardian newspaper are currently hosting the 2014Language Festival with the Born Global Symposia at the Language Show Live in London....
Ebola Prevention Lost in Translation
In the midst of the worst Ebola outbreak in history, and cases of Ebola turning up around the world, information about disease prevention is...
World Languages at the Emmys and Oscars
Spanish-language programs are celebrating their nominations in a newly-created category at the International Emmy Awards for Non-English Language U.S. Primetime Program. Telemundo and Nat...
Anti-Immigrant Group Highlights U.S. Bilingualism
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has released a new report based on recently-released Census Bureau data from the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS),...
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