A significant demand for well-trained English as a second language (ESL) teachers exists throughout the United States. In areas such as education, business, hospitality and many more, the ...

As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

I've been an English-as-a-second-language teacher in Peru for over a decade. Teaching kids the basics of their native language will help them learn other languages later. Learning a new language also ...

This week’s question is: How do you help English Language Learners when your school has no ESL curriculum? The number of English Language Learner students in our schools is rising fast, often in ...

Young children need to spend lots of time outside, away from television, computer, and telephone screens of whatever sort. Yet they can’t spend all of their time outside. So what to do when they come ...

Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

A Calvin College senior recently created an online forum for Christian teachers of foreign languages. The site gives both secondary and college-level teachers an online meeting ground for swapping ...

Teachers of Japanese in Britain are shaking up the way they teach the language in order to challenge Western stereotypes and present a more realistic image of the Asian country. Educators have been ...

This week’s question is: What are the best strategies for teaching Common Core math to English language learners? I can speak from experience in saying that Common Core has not made it any easier to ...