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Preserving Languages with Technology
Facebook. YouTube. Texting. Just a few of the new technologies that are working to preserve indigenous languages online.
With these advances in technology, many groups are utilizing social media to engage younger members of the...
Latvians Reject Proposal for Russian as Official Language
On Saturday, February 18, Latvians rejected a proposal to give Russian status as an official language of the state. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Russian is not only considered the mother tongue of...
Spotlight on Service-Learning
Connie K. Ho introduces StudyShare.org, the new hub for service learning
As the world’s work force becomes more advanced, students need to graduate university with the necessary skills and experiences that will make them stand...
Crossing the Cultural Divide
Abdelilah Salim Sehlaoui argues that language educators must develop cross-cultural communicative competence
There is an increasing demand for effective critical cross-cultural communicative competence (CCCCC) in language professionals in general and TESOL (Teachers of English...
Small Town, Big City
Lizzie Olster moons over Boston as a study abroad locale
Boston, Massachusetts is the quintessential college town: geographically small, university-saturated and intellectually inclined. Boston features a diverse educational backdrop serviced by a simple five-line subway...
Increasing American Exports to China
Connie K. Ho explains how the government-backed 100,000 Strong Initiative is promoting study in China
With 2012 being the year of the dragon, there could be some magic for Chinese language learners coming up. The...
Inuit App for Children
To help his daughter retain the Inuit language, Vancouver-based Qajaaj Ellsworth has created an online game and application software. The language is indigenous to the North American Arctic as well as parts of subarctic...
Inuit App for Children
To help his daughter retain the Inuit language, Vancouver-based Qajaaj Ellsworth has created an online game and application software. The language is indigenous to the North American Arctic as well as parts of subarctic...
nechE s’@chE wAsOwû — This Land Gives to You
J’Nisha Towne documents the heroic effort to preserve the Euchee language
The Euchee, also spelled Yuchi, tribe survived Spanish, French, and English colonialism, Manifest Destiny, disease epidemics, and natural disasters with such stealth that historians...
Teachers Doin’ It for Themselves
Kristal Bivona analyzes plans to put language and technology at the forefront of teacher education
With the new year brings the opportunity to end the lament over budget cuts, fiscal crises and the political traffic...
