Western Kentucky University’s (WKU’s) Department of Modern Languages’ Chinese Flagship Program has renewed its four-year $1.5 ...

Teachers are often drawn to education in hopes of exercising their creative freedom to make a difference in children’s lives.

The first 175 Chinese language teachers began teaching at primary and middle schools in Saudi Arabia last month, as part of ...

Every year, thousands of students from across the world make their way to Spain to attend language schools and the 76 ...

Why are dual immersion schools so successful? Superior levels of bilingualism and biliteracy, academic achievement, and cross-cultural awareness are among the outcomes documented not only for English ...

The current emphasis in ESL instruction is on a “push-in” rather than “pull-out” method of intervention: ESL teachers collaborate with a content-area teacher and co-teach in the content classroom to ...

After English, Chinese is the top language for business, according to Bloomberg Rankings, probably the world’s most respected source for business news. Surprising some observers, French ranked second, ...

A bilingual approach not only improves educational outcomes in developing countries but could help close achievement gaps in the U.S. A series of reports by Save the Children explores the role that ...

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) for reading focus heavily on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insights from what they read. In fact, 80-90% of the reading standards in every ...

Not many people would think to compare STEM and English to cops and robbers. Most see the two roles as total opposites in personality, goals, and demeanor, but without the “bad guys,” where would the ...

Facebook. YouTube. Texting. Just a few of the new technologies that are working to preserve indigenous languages online. With these advances in technology, many groups are utilizing social media to ...

N|uu is the language of the San people, who were the first hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. The language has 112 distinct sounds including 45 characteristic “clicks” and has been passed down ...