“It is time for state leaders to reinstate language requirements in our schools before the global superpower we built is lost for good,” Kylie Howe writes in an op-ed.

Fluency describes how smoothly someone speaks. Proficiency depends on what happens once a real conversation moves off script.

A teacher’s call to end ‘worshipping foreign things’ reignites debate over the language’s role in schools.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her...

“I want them to know the classroom is a place where learning can be visible,” this professor writes

A small program at the university, the linguistics department has taken pride in documenting endangered languages and preparing the next generation to research language.

A new survey led by The Australian National University (ANU) is inviting multilingual Australians to help researchers build a more complete picture of the languages spoken and signed across the country.Australia may be one of the world’s most multilingual nations, but researchers say the full extent of the country’s linguistic diversity is still not known.Researchers are launching the Languages in Australia Survey, inviting multilingual people across the country to share information about the languages they speak or sign and when they learned them.

Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute

Language loss is often a reluctant choice made to escape violence, not a willing choice made to gain benefits.

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The new proposed standards promise flexibility while projecting roughly 162,000 additional Head Start and Early Head Start slots nationally. Advocates say changes would undermine the quality of curren...

Patients who talk with their doctors in the same language they use at home generally tend to live longer, suggests a recent study by researchers at the University of Ottawa and the University of Mani...

The Migration Policy Institute found 35 states and the District of Columbia offer native language assessments.

New laws to improve educational outcomes go into effect August 12, 2026. SB26-126 addresses Colorado’s teacher shortage by easing licensure requirements for qualified out-of-state teachers, and HB26-1...

A new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Inside hundreds of church basements, civic halls and rented classrooms across America, Saturday morning means one thing for young Korean Americans:...

Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.

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In honor of the 250th anniversary of America, Penn Today spoke with linguist Gareth Roberts about some of the ways that accents have emerged and word meanings have shifted since colonial times.

Popularity of non-English music is rapidly growing in the UK, with over a quarter (28%) of those who listen starting to do so within the past year

Many Indigenous languages emphasize connection with nature. What can Tupi-Guarani, Quechua and Nahuatl teach us about our place in the world?

The nation’s largest labor union has sued the U.S. Department of Education over its decision last year to cancel 28 grants created to help teachers improve techniques for working with English-language...

Conor Williams on what schools need to do to meet the need and face down a sustained federal assault on K-12 linguistic and cultural diversity.

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Multilingual education is not merely workforce preparation. It is about equal opportunity.

Dismantling the Office of English Language Acquisition is the latest attempt to hobble the education of the country’s 5.3 million English learners.

Chinese is the most-spoken non-English, non-Spanish language in 13 states,

The Education Department notified Congress in February of its plans to dismantle OELA.

Language-responsive education: The British Council's position on inclusive language policy and practiceLanguage is central to learning. Across many contexts worldwide, schools and classrooms bring tog...

YouTube’s search and recommendation algorithms are driving children to Russian-language content even when they seek out videos in Kyrgyz, creating a cultural shift that concerns some parents.

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers of English take for granted today—the period—but not in the expected way

Why can some children read fluently but not understand what they read? Tiffany Hogan, PhD, uncovers the role of developmental language disorder and why it is often missed.