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08/23/2024

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08/21/2024

As funding for public education is dependent on the number of students, Census Bureau data showing that K-12 enrollment continued its downward trajectory in 2022 is concerning for all school and district leaders. If it were just a case of declining birth rates, little could be done, but fewer studen...

08/19/2024

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Tara West dispels common misconceptions about the Science of ReadingTara

When I set foot in my first kindergarten classroom more than 15 years ago, I quickly realized how many students struggled with basic literacy skills. And nearly just as quickly, I became well acquainted with the persistent debate about how to teach children to read with enthusiasm and efficacy. In r...

08/12/2024

In order to raise awareness of the needs of these population groups, every 9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

08/09/2024

Kathy Stein-Smith highlights the importance of entertainment, media, and sports in French language learning and advocacy

The 2024 Olympics are being held in Paris, and French is one of the two official languages of the Olympic Games wherever they may be held. Lupin and Call My Agent are only two of the many French television series that have become part of the general conversation in the US. Emily in Paris, filmed in....

08/05/2024

A new poll (https://api.ddia.org/uploads/DDIA_Poll_Report_June_25_2024_98425ffa6d.pdf) from the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) of 3,000 Latinos across the US found that many were familiar with false political claims circulating online. The online survey, conducted in March and Ap...

08/05/2024

According to a report last month in China Daily, “The surge in demand for Chinese lessons in Russia reflects the nation’s shift toward the East as tensions escalate between Moscow and the West.” Natalia Danina, a manager at Head-Hunter, Russia’s leading online recruitment company, told China...

07/30/2024

Raúl Escarpio offers guidelines on diagnosis and recommends methodologies for effective instruction of multilinguals with dyslexia

Often, schools under-identify multilinguals with dyslexia because they think the issue is language-based, so they don’t evaluate the student. There are places where multilingual students are overrepresented because we think we’ve given them the right kind of intervention when we actually haven.....

07/24/2024

Often, schools under-identify multilinguals with dyslexia because they think the issue is language-based, so they don’t evaluate the student. There are places where multilingual students are overrepresented because we think we’ve given them the right kind of intervention when we actually haven.....

07/12/2024

Despite an immediate drop in registrations after the October 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel, demand for online Arabic learning programs in the country has more than doubled in the last six months. “After the initial shock of a few days, we saw double and triple the number of new students,” Gi...

06/25/2024

Multiple states across the US pass legislation regarding reading instruction, including the Science of Reading and phonics

06/25/2024

July is our French Issue at Language Magazine. Do you speak or teach French? Want to get involved with our French efforts? Shoot us an email!

06/25/2024

Let’s Start Here Educator collaboration is an essential component of dual language education across all program models. By design, many dual language programs are based on a partnership between and among two or more educators who come to the practice with language, [multi]literacy, content experti...

05/30/2024

Kate Kinsella offers evidence-aligned strategies to build reading fluency within dedicated ELD and content-area coursework

05/30/2024

Ivannia Soto shares the lessons she’s learned after a decade of shadowing multilingual learners

My decade-long involvement in shadowing projects across the country has taught me that the average percentage of time that multilingual learners (MLLs) are speaking is often 5–10%. This is in contrast to what researchers like Pauline Gibbons (2015) tell us—that MLLs should be spending at least 3...

05/30/2024

Starting this year, middle and high school students in Paraguay can learn Korean as a second foreign language subject, according to the Ministry of Education. Paraguay’s Ministry of Education announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with its Paraguayan counterpart officially adding t...

05/28/2024

Diane Staehr Fenner suggests strategies for establishing relationships to promote multilingual learners’ belonging, language acquisition, and engagement with content

Social–emotional learning’s (SEL’s) reach has expanded significantly over the past decade and has especially accelerated during the last few years. High-quality SEL can support students’ general well-being as a pathway to improved academic outcomes (Durlak et al., 2011; Zins and Elias, 2007)...

05/22/2024

Kristen R. McLaren examines the impact of cross-cultural activities within the J-1 Teacher exchange program

“Magandang umaga! Kumusta kayo, mga bata?” “¡Buenos días!” As students enter their classrooms, brightly decorated with colorful masks, piñatas, or flags, they may be greeted warmly in languages such as Filipino, Spanish, or Twi. These schoolchildren are not entering their classes in the P...

05/09/2024

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05/05/2024

New evidence suggests that studying Chinese and learning to write Chinese characters may train a whole array of cognitive abilities not developed by learning other languages and writing systems. A study conducted by researchers from the UK’s Wellcome Trust found that “people who speak Mandarin C...

05/04/2024

Spanish speakers in the US, among linguists and nonlinguists, have been denigrated for the way that they speak, says UC Berkeley sociolinguist Justin Davidson. It’s part of the country’s long history of scrutiny of nonmonolingual English speakers, he says, dating back to the early 20th century. ...

04/05/2024

Entravision (NYSE: EVC), a global advertising solutions, media and technology company, is adding 38 new weekly newscasts on its Univision affiliated television stations across the U.S. The expanded news coverage now delivers more than 300 hours of weekly news coverage, across 121 newscasts, to the i...

04/04/2024

Although it has been politicized, Kari Kurto argues that the science of reading is nonpartisan, and we as educators need to stay away from an “us vs. them” mentality so we can listen to and learn from others

My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with dyslexia. Nearly all of these students had prior school experiences that were not positive. Yet they were thriving because they were at a school where teachers and staff, incl...

03/24/2024

A recent study by Chile’s Center for Analysis for Democracy finds Chinese broadcasters have been increasing their footprint in Spanish-speaking countries in the past few years by producing and publishing tens of thousands of videos through the three largest Spanish-language YouTube channels of its...

03/13/2024

Divided opinions over bill requiring Science of Reading implementation in California

03/13/2024

Sabrin Abedin and Gholdy Muhammad use culturally and historically responsive literacies to support multilingual learners

LEP? ELL? ML? What’s in a Name? Popular belief has held and continues to hold the image of the teacher of English language learners/multilingual learners (abbreviated to MLs henceforth) being the sole holder of knowledge about ELL instruction. If you ask anyone to describe the needs of an ML in mo...

03/01/2024

Samantha Torres offers strategies to help identify and address speech–language disorders in multilingual students

A child’s linguistic journey can have many complexities that parents may not recognize, especially when navigating the intricacies of multilingualism. Recent research conducted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has brought to light an uptick in referrals for hearing, speec...