MONROE — The children sat in a circle during their kindergarten class at Frank Wagner Elementary School, explaining what they did over the weekend. They were speaking Spanish, a native language for ...

TESOL is a university microcredential offered at SLU-Madrid for students with little or no experience teaching English, and who would like a credential that allows them to teach English to speakers of ...

There is an energy across the country for dual-language programs and schools providing instruction in both English and a second language -- that language is typically Spanish, the second-most spoken ...

I was dismayed at what our newly adopted daughter from China encountered during her first days of school in the U.S. When she followed the other 25 children in her first-grade class through the lunch ...

Geri Chaffee’s first live radio appearance came as a surprise. As schools shut down to slow the spread of coronavirus, the sudden shift to distance learning left parents frazzled and frustrated. It ...

Family members, teachers and peers can play different roles in shaping Spanish-speaking children's school readiness and English skills that are vital to children's academic success, research confirms.

Learning a language might bring to mind images of sitting in a classroom, conjugating verbs: I love, you love, he loves, we love, they love. That’s not the way Karen Birach wanted to learn Spanish.

The USA TODAY Network is launching a series on the Latino community in the USA called Hecho en USA, or made in America. Roughly 80% of all Latinos living in the USA are American citizens, but media ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...