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"Parts of our traditions kind of fall along the way if they’re not kept up," says Veronica Sanchez-Saenz, a teacher at Irving Dual Language Academy.

Breton, Corsican, Basque: A new report assesses the state of regional language teaching nationwide

A new Science paper challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and involves multiple capacities, each with different evolutionary histories. The framework unites discoveries across disciplines to explain how the ability to learn to speak, develop grammar, and share meaning converged to create complex communication.

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns thought ...

In celebration of Thanksgiving and all the food that comes with it, we’ll take an etymological trip around the dinner plate.

"There’s so much you can learn from linguistics when you apply it to the business of naming" Deborah Ball has been working in naming, branding, content creation, marketing, and communications for more than 10 years in the UK and the US. Her special focus has been brand naming. She has a Master’s in Linguistics from

For many children in Spain, switching between languages is as natural as breathing. In classrooms and playgrounds from Madrid to Málaga, Spanish, English and often a third language mix effortlessly, making bilingualism less a goal and more a way of life.

"I’ve transitioned to ‘haha’ instead of ‘lol’ because I read that 'lol' is millennial-coded."

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list

Tennessee students and teachers push back against a proposal to reduce world language graduation requirement, emphasizing its importance in education.

A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies

Under-resourced schools are less likely to support teachers in implementing AI technology to best serve learning.

Linguist, influencer and author Adam Aleksic explored the effects of technology on modern-day language at a talk titled “Are We Cooked?,” hosted by the Northwestern University Linguistics Student Association on Thursday. Known online as the “Etymology Nerd,” the social media star addressed over 100 students after an abundance of sign-ups necessitated a last-minute location change...

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Ten plays that illuminate the South Asian diaspora will be staged in various languages, including Hindi, Marathi and Bengali, in Watertown during the South Asian-American Theater Festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs Friday, Nov. 21 through Sunday, Nov. 23 at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.

Ten migrants are finishing up a ten-week bilingual course in te reo Maori and English that is believed to be the first of its kind in New Zealand. The pilot programme, based in Rotorua, has helped them build confidence in speaking, presenting and connecting through both languages. It's a collaboration between Speech New Zealand, Te Tatau o Te Arawa and the Rotorua Multicultural Council with funding covered by Immigration New Zealand. Paz Coloma, who is from Chile, has completed the course and joins Jesse.

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Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb are changing the mindset for educating multilingual learners Most education systems, despite their growth in numbers of multilingual students, still cling to monolingualism as an idealized pathway to language and literacy learning. As an extension, institutional ideologies tend to perpetuate the notion of academic language as a status symbol, bearing power that privileges standard varieties of English and treats standard language as the desirable norm in language teaching. We propose shifting from a static, rather confined notion of academic language to a more dynamic view of academic languaging—language use that is flexible, dynamic, actionable, and,

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 2.7% of high school graduates took a Latin course in 2019.