Tag: language
California Bill to Battle Bilingual Teacher Shortage
Working to support bilingual students in one of...
The Art of Writing?
It’s been a rough few years for elementary teaching and learning. Concerns remain about the progress (or lack thereof) that US students are making...
Cambridge to Install Indigenous Street Signs
Cambridge Massachusetts, home to Harvard University, , is erecting signs displaying street names in the native language of the Massachusett Tribe are going up....
Weaving Feeling into Learning
Teaching students social–emotional skills like collaboration, communication, decision-making,...
Russian Schools Begin to Offer Swahili and Amharic
In Russia's capital Moscow, three schools have introduced the teaching of either Swahili or Amharic as a second foreign language this fall.
According to Sputnik...
Campaign for Official Recognition of Catalan
The Catalan government has launched a Europe-wide PR campaign in the midst of negotiations to reform the list of official European Union (EU) languages....
Mandarin Learning Boom in Rwanda
As relations between China and many African countries strengthen, a Mandarin learning is booming all over the continent.
In Rwanda, Chinese languages are gaining prominence...
Assessing Multilingual Learners’ Multiliteracies
"The notion of ‘multiliteracies’ describes the suite of essential skills students should possess in this globalized and digital age."
Significance of Multiliteracies Today’s K–12 classrooms...