Schools across the country, regardless of location or size, have reported difficulty in hiring teachers—particularly those with specialized skills, like special education teachers. Also on the list?

Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you're getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Experts say ...

For students learning a second or foreign language, text is often simplified to ensure that they can comprehend it well enough to understand the core message. Usually, complicated text in a foreign ...

Only 10% of people in the U.S. speak a foreign language proficiently. In comparison, in Europe, 65% of people can speak a second language other than their native tongue. Although the difference is ...

"Doesn't everyone everywhere speak English?" "I took four years of high school French and couldn't understand anything when I got to Paris." "How can we teach a foreign language to young kids when ...

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Employers in the United States are increasingly reliant on multilingual employees to advance their goals, but many have lost business opportunities because they don’t have staff who can communicate in ...

Students working as Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are compensated with academic credits for classes that show their teaching experience directly on ...

Texts used in second language (L2) classrooms have traditionally been simplified manually. With recent technological advances, text can be simplified automatically through artificial ...