English Language Learners: How Your State Is Doing The number of English language learners in public schools is nearing 5 million. Many are struggling academically, despite well-intentioned efforts to help them learn English.

How Non-English-Speaking Countries Stack Up on English Proficiency It's the language of international business.

Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners? Instructional materials for English Language Learners are often too basic or inadequate for students so teachers have created their own materials, sometimes at their own risk.

Why do writers abandon their native language? Jhumpa Lahiri no longer writes in her mother tongue, following in the literary footsteps of Beckett, Nabokov and Conrad.

Why do writers abandon their native language? Jhumpa Lahiri no longer writes in her mother tongue, following in the literary footsteps of Beckett, Nabokov and Conrad.

Visiting Rio for the Olympics? Get your Portuguese ready RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If English is the language of world commerce, Brazil hasn't gotten the memo — only a small fraction of its 200 million people have a basic proficiency. Fluency is also rare for other languages such…

After Brexit, French Politicians Want To English Language Out Of EU Too The official language of a member state doesn’t automatically become an official language of the EU.

How to Talk Like a Pilgrim When the Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic in 1620, its passengers brought with them an English language that was still in the process of evolving into its modern form. The first single-language English dictionary, Robert Cawdrey's 3,000-word "Tab Read more ... le Alphabeticall," had just been published 16 years before, and the language still lacked firm grammatical rules.

I moved somewhere without knowing the language—here’s what happened. English is a fantastic language to have at your disposal. It’s spoken in a huge amount of countries as one of the official languages, and a lot of the internet is, of course, catered towards the english language user. However, being born and raised Read more ... in a country where English is the first language do…

Duolingo for Schools brings the language learning platform into the classroom Duolingo has unveiled a new platform designed specifically for use in schools that promises to make it easier for teachers to keep up with students’ language learning progress. Although Duolingo for Schools is the company’s…