Natascha Chtena is a PhD student in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter @nataschachtena. One of the challenges I face teaching a daily ...

Language skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking are essential for effective communication in English and are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sea change is on horizon in the way Chinese people learn English. And along with it, a debate is growing among teachers and parents as to how foreign languages are to be taught and learned in this ...

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

Our school was established with the goal of teaching excellence in foreign languages and diplomacy. However, as China is becoming more open and international exchanges are becoming more frequent, ...

School classroom in Estonia. Source: Priit Mürk, Ken Mürk, Siim Lõvi/ERR The ongoing transition to education in the Estonian language only can mean teachers of foreign languages in high schools may ...

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 ...