For nearly a century, Spanish-speaking workers have been a critical part of American agriculture’s labor force. While the ...

Lucy Lu is the Senior Manager, Analytics and Strategic Projects in the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO). AERO is jointly funded by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments.

Over ten percent of the student population in the United States is comprised of English Language Learners. Given that reality, the role of a student’s home language merits discussion. Use of students’ ...

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Our eight writing units are based on real-world features like reviews, opinion essays, narratives, podcasts, photo essays and more. By The Learning Network Making Connections: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ and ...

Americans have a reputation for being culturally insular, but based on 2018 data from the US Census Bureau, over 67 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home. If ...

As a part-time English teacher, I always tell my students the best way to motivate yourself to learn another language is to engage with something you're passionate about in that language: whether that ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

If you are planning to learn a foreign language, you might like to know which is the easiest second language to learn, being a native English speaker (and this is an important point, as different ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most common mistakes teachers make when working with ELLs, and what should they do, instead? Many of us who teach English-language learners make ...

Kashmir Hill joins us for the month of September to chat with teenagers about artificial intelligence and our relationship to it. Post your comments and questions for her by Sept. 15. By The Learning ...