The United States experienced phenomenal growth in the number of English-language learners over the first decade of the 21st century, expanding the need in many public schools to provide special ...

About 1 out of every 10 public school students in the United States right now is learning to speak English. They're called ELLs, for "English Language Learners." There are nearly 5 million of them, ...

English is also the most dominant language online and is the lingua franca (dominant language) of pop culture. AI is trained on vast amounts of information taken from the internet. So does this mean ...

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’ ...

A sixth-grader won her school’s spelling bee just five years after moving to Mesa from the Philippines and learning English.

For nearly a century, Spanish-speaking workers have been a critical part of American agriculture’s labor force. While the ...

Lucy Lu is the Senior Manager, Analytics and Strategic Projects in the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO). AERO is jointly funded by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments.

Americans have a reputation for being culturally insular, but based on 2018 data from the US Census Bureau, over 67 million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home. If ...

Many successful people in history spoke multiple languages. Other languages are crucial assets in business and diplomacy. “There are so many benefits to language learning that go beyond the purely ...

The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into ...