Tag: language

Today, the California State Board of Education unanimously adopted a revolutionary “English Learner Roadmap”...

The recently released National K–12 Foreign...

Last week, the Massachusetts House passed a bill that would eliminate “one size fits all” teaching for English Language Learners ( ELL ). The...

European Parliament is dedicating a session to Europe’s minority languages, and Frisian is getting...

Nearly two dozen of the approximately 100 last remaining speakers of the Acoma Keres...

According to a new report by Transparency Market Solutions the value of the cloud-based...

Jeff McQuillan shares evidence to show that reading, not cramming, is the key to improving college entrance exams, including the SAT.  A recent article in the New...

The Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) has passed a bill requiring that 75% of national...

Despite Brexit–or maybe because of it–there is a desperate shortage of world language teachers in the UK, so the government is launching a program to train native speakers of French, German, and Spanish to become teachers. The plan is to create opportunities for people with linguistic skills, whether they are living in the UK or elsewhere in Europe. “There may be people who speak French, German, or Spanish – in the UK or abroad – who would like to consider a career change and go into teaching,” said Gaynor Jones, director of the National Modern Languages SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training). “For some, it could be an opportunity to experience a different culture as well as using their talents for the benefit of students keen to learn a new language.

According to a new study focusing on language acquisition in the brain, even short repetitive exposure to new words induces a rapid neural...