For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience ...

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’ ...

This article argues that Firth and Wagner's 1997 contribution gained influence in second/foreign language teaching partly owing to a loose group of conceptual and ideological preconditions that drew ...

A Spanish teacher gives us the low-down on how the open world game can engage language learners in new ways. Glen Irvin has taught Spanish for the past 13 years at Wabasha-Kellogg High School in ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

In her Kuppi Talk article “The dispossession of a voice through English in Sri Lanka” (6 February 2024), Selvaraj Vishvika delves into the myriad troubles that accompany the imposition of standards on ...

In a country with 11 official languages, English remains more equal than others and continues to colonise the classroom, writes Mamokgethi Phakeng Language is political. Consider the youth uprising of ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) “It is better to prevent the mother tongue in the classroom in order to accelerate English language ...