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Acquiring the ability to speak fluent English has been a decades-long pursuit for many Japanese toiling to master the ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How do you promote speaking with English-language learners? Obviously, when learning a new language, it’s important to be able to speak it. This extensive series will ...

American schools are becoming more culturally and linguistically diverse. While many students quickly attain proficiency in English, there’s often a language barrier when communicating with parents.

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For approximately 5 million K-12 students in the United States, the typical school day has an additional, important learning component: becoming proficient in the English language. Michigan has the ...

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - Two truck drivers traveling through Alabama received tickets for not speaking English. “The English language proficiency standard has been there for a long time, ...