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 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College’s “My Summer in China” Chinese language day camp, a free immersion program being offered to area high schoolers and college students July 7-18 — ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona championed multilingualism for all students, as well as improved programming for the nation’s English learners. One of the last major projects he ...

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 ...

Diana Burchell receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Becky Xi Chen receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of ...

With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at ...

ROCK HILL — On a typical day, a visitor walking the halls at the Cherry Park Elementary School of Language Immersion in Rock Hill will hear greetings of "hello," "hola" and "bonjour" exchanged between ...

Growing up, Melissa Quon traveled an hour on Saturdays to attend a Chinese class in San Francisco. The teaching style was stern and “old school”, she said: “you say it, you repeat it, you write it.” ...

Meeker Elementary School’s Noheli Batres came to the United States from Mexico in third grade as a non-English speaker. Reflecting on the difficult time she faced navigating a new language in a new ...

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 ...