With an increasing number of immigrant children in many countries, questions of how to prepare them for further education become highly salient. Few studies have examined the effect of first-language ...

African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...

After learning from Native American Yuchi families, Pertame elders and young mothers in Alice Springs are raising babies in a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has left large numbers of students, teachers and families grappling with the challenges of remote learning. Remote learning can be particularly challenging for students who are ...

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 ...

For Choua Lor, a 2nd grade teacher at Vang Pao Elementary in Fresno, Calif., teaching is a calling. But working in the school’s Hmong dual-language immersion program is what she calls her life’s ...

Ehtalow Zar is one of the first teachers in the state licensed to teach Karen. In her Karen advisory class at St. Paul's Johnson Senior High School on Dec. 9, she taught students how to cook Karen ...

Professor Nirvikar Singh is co-principal investigator on the Punjabi Without Walls project. (Photo by Melissa De Witte) The first online Punjabi language course for University of California students ...

In the heart of Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood, a quiet revolution is taking place at the Mattahunt Elementary School, whose Toussaint L’Ouverture Dual Language Academy is not just breaking down ...

A recent study from the Institute of English Language and Literature at Freie Universität Berlin has shown that using codified gestures as a teaching method may make it easier for children and ...