As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

Editor’s note: This version was published in 2004. An updated version is available from 2011. With more immigrants having arrived in the United States during the 1990s than any other prior decade, the ...

When Nathan Acevedo, a junior Spanish education and Chinese double major at the University of Delaware, first began learning Spanish in high school, he was “really bad at it” and almost quit. But ...

Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of teaching and language. Here ...

A member of Canada’s Mohawk community devised a new method to teach an Indigenous language on the brink of extinction. By Ian Austen SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER, Ontario — When Brian Maracle ...

WINCHESTER — At school, she panics if she has to read aloud. She’s a conscientious student and keeps her grades up, but it isn’t easy; at times she has such trouble synthesizing the novels she reads ...

In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation, ...

Rather than treating Arabic as a standalone subject, schools are likely to integrate it more deeply into everyday learning, ...

Apple’s most recent fall event centered on excitement about the iPhone X, face recognition replacing Touch ID, OLED displays, and a cellular-enabled Apple Watch. But instead of “one more thing,” ...