I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

The Language Immersion Student Residence, formerly known as the Foreign Language Student Residence, recently changed its name with the goal of clarifying the program's purpose and eliminating ...

Under the morning sun, I climb the steep cobblestone streets of the Albaicín. It’s my second day volunteering in music classes at the local primary school. Upon entering Colegio Público Gomez-Moreno, ...

When a group of Northwest Alaska teachers listened to the “Raven and the Seal” story in Iñupiaq for the first time, some of them didn’t understand the words. On the third day of their language ...

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga’s Early Learning Language Immersion Center is transitioning its preschool program to a new location. Officials said, "This will ensure continued high-quality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s ...

Immersion is based upon the premise that learning content through a new language builds proficiency in both the content and language. Yet, whatever the model (ranging from 80 to 50% of instruction in ...

When the morning school bell rang, students in the halls of the International School of Indiana’s lower school building hurried into their respective classrooms. The elementary classrooms bustled with ...

Students in Erin Weisenbeck’s first-grade classroom gathered on a rug Tuesday morning in the front of their classroom at Madison Elementary School. Weisenbeck sat before the group with a large book ...

I was walking along, minding my business, when out of the blue, a passer-by said, “Shikamoo” — the respectful Swahili greeting used by young people when addressing elders, which literally means "I ...

While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well ...