Students today have more choices, more information, and more pathways than any generation before them. They compare ...

The African continent is home to one third of the world’s 6,000 languages, but less than one seventh of the world’s population. Europe, which has the reputation for bilingualism due to its many close ...

Across tens of thousands of US schools, a myriad of labels, from limited English proficient, former limited English proficient, and English language learners to English learners, have been assigned to ...

TESOL and NABE join forces to host this month’s 2026 Advocacy Action Days in Washington, D.C. TESOL International Association (TESOL) and the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) are ...

Rod Ellis is an author, educator, and researcher who has taught all around the world, in his homeland of England, Zambia, the U.S., China, Spain, and Japan. Ellis has authored more than 30 books and ...

LM: Where does your interest in language and/or linguistics originate? And can you explain how it correlates with your love of mathematics? CH: My interest in language stems from my schooling in the ...

One day at recess, a distraught five-year-old approached me and proclaimed angrily, “Fulanito me tagó.” Confused, I attempted to understand her meaning: “¿Te tocó?” (“He touched you?”) She shook her ...

As the Science of Reading (SoR) gains traction across states, schools, and teacher preparation programs, a pressing question has emerged: How well does the SoR framework serve multilingual learners ...

The quote above from the physicist Richard Feynman implies that things are not always as they seem. What we perceive as indubitable reality is often far from it. Indeed, many of science’s most ...

With the advent of ChatGPT, Google Bard, Midjourney and Canva’s magic features, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives, transforming industries and ...

Throughout IDRA’s almost five decades, we have paid close attention to how we speak about people in terms of race or ethnicity, gender, etc. Words matter. Almost 5 million students in U.S. public ...

K atie Novak explains why the implementation of universal design for learning (UDL) is best practice to increase engagement in all students In 1922, my grandmother moved from Trois-Rivières, a city in ...