Safira Amazan asks why decisions are made in English but taken in French There is a curious asymmetry between English and ...

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has announced that nearly two thirds of 300 recently surveyed UK businesses prefer staff with foreign language skills. The statement comes ahead of the ...

Lu Jingsheng, the Chinese government’s National Coordinator for Spanish, said that in the last fifteen years the demand for Spanish language education in China has “increased 30 fold” without being ...

Teachers looking for exciting authentic materials will be pleased to hear that Marvel Comics is teaming up with Italian publisher Panini Comics to translate some of its most popular stories into ...

José Medina, Elena Izquierdo, and Vanessa Espitia Mendoza talk us through the need for administrators to learn how to lead Dual Language Bilingual Education programs Dual language bilingual education ...

Although China boasts a history of over 5,000 years, the modern nation-state we know today is only about 65 years old. Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People’s ...

Walk into any classroom in the US, you’ll likely encounter students who speak a language other than English at home, who might have learned to read in another language before coming to school, or who ...

One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me and proclaimed angrily, “Fulanito me tagó.” Confused, I attempted to understand her meaning: “¿Te tocó?” (“He touched you?”) She shook her ...

Supporting young children’s language and literacy development has long been considered a practice that yields strong readers and writers later in life. The results of the National Early Literacy Panel ...

Now that Bulgaria is a full member of the European Union, expect to see its economy boom. Photographs by Athina Kontos Bulgarian is spoken by 5.4 million people in Bulgaria, or 77% of the population ...

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) for reading focus heavily on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insights from what they read. In fact, 80-90% of the reading standards in every ...

According to the Instituto Cervantes, which promotes Spanish language and culture around the world, Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez has overtaken Miguel de Cervantes as the most translated ...