Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely on shared culture as well as language.
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AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative value of learning a new language.
Making and analyzing art helps students learn English on a more personal and emotional level than traditional approaches do.
Two days after 12 of Europe’s leading clubs broke away to launch a new competition, they appear to be back in the fold.
The British prime minister has vowed to drop a ‘legislative bomb’ on the new proposals.
How we teach languages has not evolved much from the traditional grammar-based mode of instruction, and this approach alone marginalizes students’ existing knowledge and communication abilities.
A Vancouver study found Mandarin-speaking girls were more likely to be eligible for university than Cantonese-speaking boys. High-achieving students were from wealthier families who had tutors.
Educational mobile gaming can offer students a way to practice language while taking away the pressures of typical face-to-face communication.
The language learning approach called “plurilingualism” empowers people to draw on many languages and cultural modes of communicating.
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