Tag: culture
Arabic Literary Prize Submissions Open
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is now open for submissions. The award has a reputation for highlighting the most exciting, and often the most...
Sustaining Community
While no one was prepared for the pandemic shuttering of physical school buildings, K–12 teachers of less commonly taught languages were perhaps the most...
Building a Community of Year-Round Readers
If recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is any indication, literacy education is a challenge across the country, with only...
Spanish through Music & Friendship in Tijuana
Univoice Corporation, the developer of a language-learning platform that teaches languages exclusively through music, has started its first learning class in Tijuana, Mexico. This...
Multilingual Matters
The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language which is one of the authorities regulating and preserving the changes that occur in the ...
Finding Inspiration in Diversity
Chris Cartwright offers examples showing how improved intercultural competence can motivate language learning
“You really cannot teach a language; it has to be learned. Fostering...
Cultivating a Personal Style
Juliet Falce-Robinson insists on individual style in a skills-based approach to language teaching
The goal of a successful language program is to foment and foster...
Keeping Up with les Voisins
Michael Ballagh questions the rankings race in study abroad participation
U.S. institutions of higher education have long sought validation in the rankings system dominated by...
Social Climbing
Yue Meng and Nile Stanley see the educational value in social networking sites
If you type “Facebook educational usage” into Google, it will show millions...
Chinese Dialects Honored in Film
Last month’s Zurong Dialect Film Festival, one of China’s campaigns to preserve language diversity, received 582 entries featuring various dialects in just its second...
