Tag: language
Will You Accept the Indigenous Language Challenge?
In the same vein as the ice-bucket challenge that raised awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a video challenge to raise awareness and fostering...
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...
An Increase in Foreign Language Support For South Korea’s Multicultural Families
According to South Korea’s Gender Equality Ministry and municipal governments, more language support programs will be launched for multicultural families in 2015. There were...
Write to the US Senate to Protect World Language Education
The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of the United States Senate has released a draft of the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
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...
Celebrate International Mother Language Day
Inclusive Education through and with Language - Language Matters
Message from the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova:
2015 marks the 15th anniversary of International Mother Language...
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...
How does mother tongue affect second language acquisition?
A new study is exploring how a person’s native language can influence the way the brain processes auditory words in a second language.
Because cues...
China to train 30,000 overseas language teachers by 2017
Earlier this month, plans to train about 30,000 overseas Chinese teachers by the end of 2017 were announced at the Third World Chinese Language...
