Exaggerating phrases and talking in a sing-song way can actually help, not make it harder, for young children to master speaking a language.
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The Welsh government has taken steps to ensure that the Welsh language plays a more prominent role in welcoming refugees and migrants.
Although English to speakers of other languages (Esol) is treated like any other subject, it can offer far more to those learners.
Beliefs about language are never just about language. They reflect institutional power dynamics.
Hopes are rising that international students will be back in Australia early in 2022, but that doesn’t mean the education sector will be able to shrug off the impacts of their absence any time soon.
A draft strategy for the English-language teaching sector released in 2020 was put on hold. In revisiting the strategy, we emphasise the advantages that Australia’s multilingualism offers learners.
Without the opportunity to learn in dual-language programs, children may lose out on growing up to be bilingual.
The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
Despite reports that multilingual students’ academic progress has ‘stalled,’ researchers find new reasons to be optimistic about how they are faring in US schools.
Using purpose-built English language tests for purposes other than what they were created to test reduces the validity of these tests.
The discourse and structure of online learning can exclude English language minority students. Techniques such as video chats, “safe houses” and content-focused grading can support their success.
The new British Columbia government wants the province to shed its status as a laggard on education funding and poverty reduction. If it succeeds, B.C. will be a safer place to live.
The English language test is an unfair barrier to anyone for whom English is not their mother tongue.
Language learning can make people more open to seeing a new way of doing things and develop a greater level of comfort with unfamiliar situations.
In South Africa there’s a value judgment attached to students who take part in universities’ English for Academic Purposes programmes. This shouldn’t be the case.
Will Hélène really learn English better if you call her Helen?
Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
Under the current system, nobody is accountable for the progress of students learning English in schools – or whether funding is being used appropriately.
Want kids to improve fluency in English language? Try dance and drama as teaching tools.
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor of ESOL, University of South Wales
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Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Education Development, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Welsh, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Education, Oregon State University
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M.A. Candidate, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, West Virginia University
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Principal: UCT English Language Centre, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, Flinders University
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International Director, Arts, Education and Law, Griffith University
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Professor and Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Subject Leader in TESOL, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County