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The U.S. Dept. of Defense Education Activity​ has awarded a $500K grant to start a Spanish Immersion Program at a 2nd Harford Co. school.

The State Department of Education published a new framework to help school districts support English-learning and multi-language learning students.  The state’s dept. of education has been working on the framework since 2021 and it outlines the best ways school districts can support their multi-lingual learners starting from the administration down to the classroom instructor. “This framework reflects our collective commitment…

Cherokee Nation leaders and citizens are celebrating the launch of a new Cherokee language dictionary app, created through a collaboration between the tribe and Kiwa Digital, a development agency based in New Zealand.

New research shows our pragmatic language abilities — which allow us to understand nonliteral expressions like sarcasm or metaphors — can be grouped together based on what types of inferences they require. MIT researchers identified three clusters of pragmatic skills based on understanding social conventions and rules, how the physical world works, and differences in tone.

creating a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics!

Through documentaries and dramas, animations and music videos, this collection highlights the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Americas.

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By reclaiming a long-lost language, the Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts achieved the impossible. What comes next?