Khalea Johnson discovered her love of foreign cultures by playing a video game. Super Mario Bros. Wii, to be exact. There was something about being immersed in the fictional multiplayer universe that ...

Over the past decades our world has become more interdependent and new technologies have allowed us to work in close contact with people all over the world. As relationships with countries grow, so ...

University students of yesteryear read the classics. Aristotle, Euclid, Homer and Plato were part of the regular course of study. And students read these challenging texts in their original languages ...

For student learning outcomes, please see wiu.edu/provost/learningoutcomes. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures offers the Bachelor of Arts degree in ...

With so much focus on foreign language study these days, some are questioning whether two years is enough for fluency or even necessary at all. Foreign language enrollment in higher education grew by ...

Georgetown’s German department was highlighted as a model for other schools in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a national education newspaper. The article, which discussed the ...

For 67 years, the Department of Education has administered grants to universities to create centers devoted to foreign languages and area studies, a field focused on the study of the culture of a ...

MC foreign language student receives Gilman Scholarships to study abroad in Taiwan Khalea Johnson discovered her love of foreign cultures by playing a video game. Super Mario Bros. Wii, to be ...

More students enrolled in foreign language classes in 1998 than ever before, according to a report released Thursday by the Modern Language Association. The report revealed a 4.5 percent increase in ...

Participants in the sixth edition of FITUR Lingua, the section organized by FITUR in collaboration with FEDELE (Spanish Federation of Schools of Spanish as a Foreign Language), held today as part of ...

Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you're getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Experts say ...