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An academic in the U.K. has analyzed President Trump’s use of the everyday gesture as a tool for conveying his populist message.

Manitoba's government says it wants the province to be "truly bilingual." The premier has said that could come with official status in the law, but experts argue the focus should be on how to use existing legislation to improve the delivery of public services in French.

Nature - Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

The UNESCO General Assembly has officially ratified a resolution recognising February 9 as International Greek Language Day.

Half of the pupils from Welsh-medium schools who started at university this year have left Wales.

Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense

In this episode, Rob and Jess dig into the origins of the words we use for our furry, feathered, and occasionally scaly companions.

A change of scene for one episode: recently the brilliant poet and performer Molly Naylor interviewed me for her podcast Making Trouble, about creativity, and she kindly let me run a version of that episode here for you. We're talking about ideas, but also long-term creative careers, mortality, podcasting, external validation, and Molly offers some great prompts for either sparking ideas or making a dinner conversation a bit more lively.

Lingthusiasm Episode 102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf It’s a fun science fiction trope: learn a mysterious alien language and acquire superpowers, just like if you’d been zapped by a…

An anonymous reader shares a report: arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven't been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why? A tide of...

The Dakhodiapi Oethi in Minnesota are keeping their language alive by providing free multi-generational day camps four times per year. Belwin Conservancy is privately owned and still opened amidst federal shut down.

One teacher has been left to try and instruct 30 first grade students in English and Vietnamese.

On Monday, Nov. 3, registration opens for Aurora Public Schools’ first-ever dual-language magnet school.

By Akiko Meguro and Todd Bryant, Dickinson College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CZNP1530 Introduction One of the challenges facing language teachers is creating engaging out-of-class assignments that support the communicative goals of the current lesson while also providing useful feedback. Online workbooks offer

"Somewhat to my surprise, what came up number one was American Sign Language, and so I recommended to the school board, in addition to retiring those other languages, we launch American Sign Language. So they voted yes, and we are in the early stages of planning for that change," said Pekel.

The neighborhood festival drew hundreds as Adelante Charter School celebrates 25 years in Santa Barbara.

We mark Día de los Muertos with some words about the dead, some of which have been brought back to life, and some that should have remained dead.

"We take so much of communication for granted - until we can't communicate" Emelia BensonMeyer is a speech-language pathologist specializing in evaluation and treatment of voice, airway, and swallowing disorders. She has an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a Master’s in Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Her background in linguistics has equipped her to critically consider

Twelve Sheep-Harney Elementary School kindergarteners were neatly seated atop a colorful carpet, keenly watching their teacher, chanting in unison her spoken words.

UMass Dartmouth will host a free conference for Portuguese language teachers on Friday, Nov. 7. Here's what's on the agenda.

Ester de Jong and Socorro Herrera call for teacher agency amidst science of reading mandates In Spring of 2023, we wrote a short article in Language Magazine, outlining three areas where the science of reading movement and its implementation rendered the research on and experiences of multilingual learners (MLs) largely invisible. In conversation with expert ML teachers, we questioned the positioning that was happening across the nation of phonics as a silver bullet, the straight jacket of prescribed practices that accompanied the implementation of the science of reading, and the deficit orientations that emerged as part of this effort at

Nicholas Kealiʻi Lum braids traditional Hawaiian mele to modern soundscapes, creating bridges between younger audiences and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.

Puentes Multilingual School in Ypsilanti serves students in kindergarten through fourth grade.