Private Schools Must Stop Snubbing Language Learning Policy
analysis By Judith Nakayiza, Makerere University and Medadi Ssentanda Private schools are becoming ubiquitous across Africa. Research has shown that their growth, although it has positive effects, is also problematic because many private schools are being set up without proper [...]
Learning center features language immersion preschool, Spanish lessons
WEST CHESTER TWP. — A new business is hoping that parents will give their child a bilingual education to give them the greatest advantage in the rapidly expanding global community. La Casita Learning Center, which touts itself as “Cincinnati’s first [...]
Language learning platform Duolingo launches in the Arab world
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Oscars: Swiss Select ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ as Foreign Language Entry
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture (OFC) has confirmed 3D documentary “Iraqi Odyssey” as the country’s official foreign-language Oscar entry. The film tells the story of director Samir’s globalized middle-class Iraqi family, who live in New Zealand, Russia, France, the UK [...]
Speak Up: Supporting Online Language Learning with In-Person Programs
Presented by: EBSCO, Rosetta Stone and Library Journal Event Date & Time: Thursday, September 17th, 2015, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PT With 311 languages spoken in the United States, few, if any, [...]
Bangkok blast: Suspect spoke foreign language, not English, say cops
BANGKOK: Thai police said Wednesday the prime suspect in the bombing of a Bangkok religious shrine in which 20 people died was overheard speaking a foreign language other than English. “Foreign language, not English also,” national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri [...]
The benefits of learning in a second language outweigh the negatives
My eight-year-old son has been attending a Cantonese school but has just got a place at an international school. His English skills are not that good, and I’m worried that he won’t keep up with his classmates. He is upset [...]
Sign language approved as a foreign language in N.J. high schools
Franklin Borough students hope vibrations will aid the blind Gov. Chris Christie signed a new law Monday requiring high schools to recognize American Sign Language as meeting world language requirements. (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) TRENTON — [...]
Student is rewarded for creative poem in foreign language – Morpeth Herald
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Learning to speak the language of cats: How they’re actually telling humans …
Some time ago, I delivered a cat into this world and now I am raising him because he is my son and I am his mother. (That’s the truth — please don’t dispute my personal history in the comments.) The [...]