YOKOHAMA--Teacher Yumiko Imanishi wrestled with the fact that some students form a negative view of English after entering high school. With this in mind, she embarked on a project to foster more ...
About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect. This means their first language or dialect is something other than English and they need ...
There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...
Music is often considered a universal language, as it crosses language barriers and connects people all over the world with ease. In fact, songs are popularly used in foreign language classrooms as a ...
Jethro Mukuna poses for a picture in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He began studying English in Provo at BYU's English Learning Center, just like his aunts and uncles ...
Most English-language learning classrooms use conventional teaching methods that focus on grammar drills, vocabulary memorization, reading comprehension and structured writing tasks — all with the ...
One of the biggest barriers for secondary English learners in math is not computation, but language. The subject’s complex ...
A recent study found that every $1 invested in English upskilling produced a $6 return in the form of increases in local tax revenues, consumer spending, job creation, and business investment. In a ...