As the nation shifts to online learning during the novel coronavirus outbreak, language and access barriers may shut many of the nation’s nearly 5 million English-learner students out of the learning ...

Americans have a reputation for being culturally insular, but based on 2018 data from the US Census Bureau, over 67 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home. If ...

Michelle Sheehan has received funding for her research and outreach activities from the British Academy, Language Acts and World Making and the Philological Society. According to a recent survey ...

All children are born with the same kind of brain wiring, so at the outset, we are all equally adept at learning any possible human language. For a newborn, any language is, in principle, as easy or ...

There are over 7,000 languages in the world. Quite a few people in the world speak 2-4 languages fluently, usually because they were raised in a multilingual environment. In today’s interconnected, ...

SHENZEN, China & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Tencent and Age of Learning, Inc., announced the launch of a new ABCmouse TM English learning program in China, an expert-designed immersive ...

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 ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. All children ...