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The sun is shining on language education in the US, and 2024 could turn out to be a pivotal year for the creation of...

Tone More Important than Phonetics for Babies’ Language Development 

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Push for Channel Islands language to be taught in schools

On the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, UK the language commission chair has announced that the native language of the island should...

Chinese Government Pledges Support for Promotion of Mandarin Worldwide

In Beijing, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official has pledged support for ongoing efforts to maintain Chinese language education internationally, and to...

Bilingualism May Improve Attention Control

According to a study recently published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, people who speak two languages may be better at shifting their attention from...

Art of Arabic Language Celebrated

Monday 18 December marked the United Nations World Arabic Language Day, an annual tribute to Arabic language and culture. Celebrated in many Arabic nations and...

Bahasa Indonesia Made UNESCO Official Language

Bahasa Indonesia, the official and national language of Indonesia, has been designated an official language of UNESCO at its recent General Conference in Paris....

ChatGPT Fails Spanish Test

Researchers from Spain’s Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), together with colleagues from the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) and the University of Valladolid...

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Originally published in June 2007, Language Magazine is republishing this article in memoriam of the activist, artist, and author of this, Herman Sillas I had gone through school from the first grade through law school speaking English, learning at an early age that Spanish was not to be used in school. Then, as I started my law practice, my first...

You All Belong Here

You know that feeling when you enter a room and instantly realize there is a meeting happening and you were not invited? Think about...

The Future of Learning

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Weaving Feeling into Learning

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In 1974 the Lau v. Nichols Supreme Court decision stated: “There is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers and curriculum… for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education.” Nearly 50 years later, we have concrete research, policies, and pedagogy to support and enhance the oral and...

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Fastest Growth in US International Students in 40 Years

The Open Doors 2023 Report on International Educational Exchange shows that the US hosted more than one million (1,057,188) international students during the 2022/23 academic year, a 12% increase compared to...

International Students Returning to US

Last month, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) released the latest version of the SEVIS by the Numbers report, which provides us with the latest official statistics on international students...

Study Abroad Grant Program Reintroduced to Senate

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) today reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Program Act, which renames a competitive grant program...

Open Doors Report

The Open Doors 2022 Report on International Educational Exchange, released last month by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education (IIE),...

Long Term Programs Suit Remote Workers

Over the past two years, more and more of our work and school has shifted online. From the workplace, to college, to elementary classrooms, people have embraced the opportunity to work...

Creating Community through Multinationalism

Although Maryam Ghatee does not speak French and has no connection to French culture, she has sent her third-grade daughter, Mona, to a local French...

International Education Week 2021

Now that travel restrictions are being lifted, International Education Week (IEW), Nov. 15–19, 2021, is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of...

Studying Abroad Improves Fluency and Lexis ‘Rapidly’

Study abroad programs are a mainstay of university language departments all over the world—and for good reason, too. Studying abroad—even for a relatively short period of time—can allow students to significantly...

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It’s been a rough few years for elementary teaching and learning. Concerns remain about the progress (or lack thereof) that US students are making in literacy, and there’s no one cause hindering this progress. Many factors have contributed to lower test scores, from the amount of money individual districts invest in their students to teacher shortages to pandemic-related learning loss. And we must remember that even before the pandemic,...

Listen to the Bilingual Science!

Two years ago, we (Dual Language Education of New Mexico’s professional development coordinators) outlined a framework for high-quality dual language education that...

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For at least a half-century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how children learn to read. While policymakers, curriculum developers, educational leaders, and those in the media have been using this discussion to drive headlines and...

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