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Skills for a Multilingual, Global Learning Community
Edynn Sato offers strategies for educators to help multilingual learners develop academic literacies and succeed across multiple academic disciplines and contexts
In our increasingly diverse and...
Multilingual Exposure Improves Children’s Social Skills
Empathy Increases with Linguistic Experience
Young children only have to hear more than one language spoken at home to become better communicators, a new study...
Foreign Language Skills Deemed a Necessity in UK Business Firms
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has announced nearly two thirds of 300 recently surveyed UK businesses prefer staff with foreign language skills.
The...
From Language Skills to Teaching Prowess
Montserrat Villar González offers a personal view on developing as a language teacher
There are many paths to becoming a teacher of a second or...
Robots Teach Language Skills to Preschoolers
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched an eight week trial to test how well preschool children can learn language skills from...
Do Heritage Triggers Impair Second-Language Skills?
Research on how cultural knowledge operates in the mind increasingly focuses on the dynamics through which our cultural frames are evoked by particular situations....
