To boost students’ English proficiency, public high schools in Tokyo began offering one-on-one online lessons with tutors from the Philippines who are fluent in the language. The program covers all ...

Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

Universities and schools across the globe are offering an increasing number of courses taught in English. Parents and politicians alike are pushing for this change as English is considered a worldwide ...

The government’s new curriculum guidelines for English-language lessons at junior high schools have been criticized as so difficult that students are growing to detest the subject. At public schools, ...

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

An international research team has examined how English lessons in primary school affect language proficiency in this subject in secondary school. Children who started learning English in the first ...