Tag: language
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...
Free Understanding Language MOOC
Stanford University Graduate School of Education and University of California Davis are offering a free, new MOOC: “Seven Essential Practices for Developing Academic Oral...
Russian Revival?
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union over 20 years ago, the importance of Russian as an international language has dwindled. However, over the...
Comedian Named UK Language Champion
Emmy award-winning comedian and actor Eddie Izzard has been chosen as the UK’s 2014 “public language champion” by judges from The Guardian newspaper and...
When Language and Learning Get Tough
John Carr offers strategies for identifying and serving the growing population of English learners with learning difficulties
In the 2012-2013 school year, there were approximately...
Language and Friendship
A host family awaits each student who embarks on an experience abroad with Language & Friendship which offers individual immersion family-stay experiences in France,...
