Northwestern’s director of the Middle Eastern and North African studies program is advocating for increased Arabic language instruction in Chicago Public Schools as a way to curb what he sees as ...

With a boost from the state, three new Washington school districts will join the ranks of those offering dual-language immersion programs, providing students the opportunity to learn in both English ...

In dual language environments, aligning expectations for writing across all language instruction can help advance overall student literacy says Erin Lillis Kent, international literacy consultant.

"Simultaneously teaching language and content is difficult. Competencies and principles for content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and DBLE instruction just say to 'integrate,' but ...

In Miss Xuechen Liu’s kindergarten classroom at Haven Elementary in Savannah, the children practice their numbers in Chinese by singing a song. They introduce themselves to one another with the help ...

The United States lost ground over the past decade in the proportion of elementary schools that offer foreign-language lessons, following a decade during which those schools had increasingly launched ...

Students must demonstrate proficiency in a world language other than English equal to a fourth-semester course level through one of the following options: Option 1: Complete a fourth semester college ...

To assist children who need Japanese language instruction, the education ministry plans to increase the numbers of language instructors by recognizing them as part of the school staff.

As the result of an appeal, West Virginia University will not be eliminating all foreign language instruction as its administrators had originally recommended on August 10. Instead, it will continue ...

Every year, Monica Mesa, principal of Longfellow Elementary School in Mesa, has to decide which school activities her more than 100 English-learning students will miss. Sometimes they'll miss ...