Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were ...

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do nonspeakers saddled with learning it. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries ...

English learners accounted for 10.6 percent of all public school students in fall 2021, up from 9.4 percent in fall 2011. That’s according to federal data updated in May which tracks this student ...

There are several strategic benefits to English proficiency. First, English is the language of business, growth, and economic prosperity. The operating language of Deutsche Bank, the Asian Development ...

Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

Asia ranks second in the world after Europe among non-native English speakers, according to the 7th edition of the EF English Proficiency Index, the world’s largest study that measures adult English ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about marketing, branding and business strategy. With China’s growing economic might, is Mandarin becoming the preferred ...

Emma Seddon receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country’s ...

THE RISE OF ENGLISH Global Politics and the Power of Language By Rosemary Salomone “Every time the question of language surfaces,” the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci wrote, “in one way or ...