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Using Smart Technology to Preserve Aboriginal Languages
Recently, the New South Wales (NSW) Aboriginal affairs minister Victor Dominello announced $185,000 in funding for the development of an app to support the...
How Internet Slang Enters ASL Vernacular
As the Oxford dictionary updates its lexicon with Internet-y terms such as “lolcat” (a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous and typically...
Promote Youth Literacy with Read Across America Day
Read Across America Day is held on March 2nd, the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss, and is celebrated with events and activities designed...
A Call For Diversity in Mobile App Languages
The mobile app market reached over 1.3 million available applications in July of 2014 and continues to be a booming business medium. Still greatly...
Google Translate’s Update Forecasts Language Learning Machines
Google Translate, an app that is estimated to perform about one billion translations a day, has officially added two new translation technologies. The Word...
Bilingualism Benefits the Brain at Any Age
Learning and actively using a second language, whether done from childhood or later in life, can not only improve language processing but benefit the...
Less is More?
Kristal Bivona details the MLA's new report on world language enrollments
The Modern Language Association (MLA) published a new report on the state of language...
Toolkit for Schools to Help Undocumented Students
The Dream Educational Empowerment Program (DEEP) has released a 65-page National Institutions Coming Out Day Toolkit in preparation for the National Institutions Coming Out...
Feds Remind Educators of ELL Obligations
The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Justice (DOJ) have released joint guidance reminding states, school districts, and schools of their obligations under federal...
Chimps Learn the Local Language
When humans move to a new place, they oftentimes learn the local way of speaking, whether picking up some of the local language or...
New Federal Language Education Survey
With funding from The Language Flagship at the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO), the American Councils Research Center (ARC), the research...
Study Abroad Campaign for K-12 Teachers
Today, the Institute of International Education (IIE) is officially launching a new campaign to recruit 1,000 K-12 teachers to join Generation Study Abroad, a...
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