Teachers are often drawn to education in hopes of exercising their creative freedom to make a difference in children’s lives.

The first 175 Chinese language teachers began teaching at primary and middle schools in Saudi Arabia last month, as part of ...

Every year, thousands of students from across the world make their way to Spain to attend language schools and the 76 ...

Why are dual immersion schools so successful? Superior levels of bilingualism and biliteracy, academic achievement, and cross-cultural awareness are among the outcomes documented not only for English ...

The current emphasis in ESL instruction is on a “push-in” rather than “pull-out” method of intervention: ESL teachers collaborate with a content-area teacher and co-teach in the content classroom to ...

After English, Chinese is the top language for business, according to Bloomberg Rankings, probably the world’s most respected source for business news. Surprising some observers, French ranked second, ...

A bilingual approach not only improves educational outcomes in developing countries but could help close achievement gaps in the U.S. A series of reports by Save the Children explores the role that ...

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 ...

Facebook. YouTube. Texting. Just a few of the new technologies that are working to preserve indigenous languages online. With these advances in technology, many groups are utilizing social media to ...

Hong Kong’s recent census report states that Mandarin is the second language most spoken on the island following Cantonese. Cantonese remains dominant with 96% percent. As for Mandarin, 48% of Hong ...

Much of a world language teacher’s time is invested in thinking about how new languages are effectively and efficiently learned. Often, this leads to experimentation in the classroom — that is, the ...

Thousands of pupils across the United Kingdom are to be given Mandarin lessons in a government bid to double the amount of Mandarin learners in the UK by 2019. It has been announced that more than ...