Tag: english
Students Protest Multilingual Instruction in South Africa
Student protests disrupted classes and led to the cancellation of a career fair at Stellenbosch University in Western Cape, South Africa over a school-wide...
Half of EU Doctors Rejected from UK for Poor English
About a year after the EU’s freedom of movement rules were amended to require medical doctors to pass a language proficiency exam in order...
English on the Upswing Among Latinos
According to a new report out by the Pew Research Center, English proficiency has hit all-time highs among Latinos, while Spanish is spoken less...
Oklahoma Senator Reintroduces the English Language Unity Act
This week, Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, reintroduced the English Language Unity Act. The legislation would mandate that the federal government use...
Tanzania Drops English for Kiswahili
Since Tanzania's independence from Britain in 1961, public education has been bilingual, beginning with Kiswahili - known as Swahili in the West - in...
California Needs an English Learner Advocate
Language Magazine is lending its support to twenty Californian education, social justice, and civil rights organizations encouraging the state’s governor, Jerry Brown to appoint...
English Challenge in Morocco
After saying that “French is no longer valid” back in April, Morocco’s Minister of Higher Education, Lahcen Daoudi, is now saying that Arabic is...
California ‘Failing’ English Learners
A California judge has ruled that it is the state’s obligation to ensure that school disticts provide language instruction to English language learners (ELLs),...
English Designed for Kids
English vocabulary is designed to help children learn according to research led by the UK’s Lancaster University.
From obvious examples, like "woof" representing the sound...
California Adopts First English Framework Based on Common Core
Today, the California State Board of Education adopted the English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework for California Public Schools (Framework). This is the first...
