Language Education Outside the U.S.

Published by the Evening Standard, May 3, 2016

 

London's first “all-through” bilingual school, where pupils are taught in a different language depending on the subject, has been officially opened.

Children can start in the nursery of L’Ecole Internationale Franco-Anglaise (EIFA) at the age of 18 months and stay at the school till they are 18 years old.

Published by the Economist, April 23, 2016

 

Gaelic is making a comeback in Scotland!

Published by the Buenos Aires Herald, April 13, 2016

 

The continued advantages of “bilingual” English and Spanish language skills were on display at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires yesterday, which hosted a special event with the Cambridge English Language Assessment body, highlighting the ongoing potential for English language education in Argentina.

 

British Diplomats at the Embassy building praised the organization’s “excellence” in language assessment and advocated that the event’s theme — “On the road to Bilingualism” — is crucial in the current global environment.

 

“We all know that we live in a world that is every day more and more globalized and interconnected, and so it’s increasingly important to know more about our languages, whether that be in the realm of professional, educational or personal life,” a British embassy representative told a packed audience at the Embassy in Recoleta neighbourhood yesterday.

Published by Global News, March 8, 2016

 

The Winnipeg School Division (WSD) Board of Trustees has approved a plan to introduce three new bilingual language programs to its division – Spanish, Cree and Ojibwe.

The Board required a certain amount of students to register for the programs in order to move ahead with the plan.

“We’re very pleased to be offering these bilingual language programs in our division,” said Winnipeg School Division Chair Mark Wasyliw.
“I commend the community members who have worked so hard to get these heritage languages in place.”

The new bilingual language program start at Kindergarten with each year adding the next grade.

Published by SBS, April 7, 2016

 

This story is part of a five-part series about bilingualism and language education in Australia It‘s Tuesday morning at the Italian Bilingual School in the Sydney suburb of Meadowbank and 11-year-old Sam Evans is giving a presentation about Spain to a small class of Year 6 students.

Published by the Irish Times, March 7, 2016

 

Ireland’s efforts to build a globalised economy are unsustainable in the long run, given its failed foreign language education policy, particularly in German, according to Irish business leaders and academics.

 

Heads of multinational companies operating in Ireland say they cannot understand why they are forced to go outside the state to recruit the thousands of multilingual staff they need.

 

Employers organisation Ibec, meanwhile, said Ireland’s foreign language failure was “the most intractable of policy challenges” that was hobbling growth potential of both home-grown companies and of the Irish economy.

Published by the CSUF News Service,  May 9, 2016

 

Education faculty members hold a "train the trainer" workshop for a group of volunteers who plan to travel to the Middle East this summer to help Syrian refugee children.

Published by Murcia Today, April 20, 2016

 

Murcia Schools Introduce More Bilingual Education Programs

Published by Gulfnews, April 13, 2016

 

Being able to speak two languages has become a minimal expectation for parents in the UAE.

The immediate target is to teach children at least Arabic and English, and seek out the best ways to do this.

By the time children are eight months old, those raised in bilingual homes seem to have skills not possessed by those raised in monolingual homes. Research demonstrates that learning a second language can significantly enhance literacy skills development.

Published by SBS, April 7, 2017

 

This story is part of a five-part series about bilingualism and language education in Australia The chair of Indigenous linguistics at ANU University has called for a national strategy to improve Indigenous language education in schools as poor rates of attendance and performance continue to plague communities.

Published by +972 Magazine, March 11, 2016

 

Hundreds of Jewish and Arab parents and children from Jaffa protested in central Tel Aviv Friday morning to demand that the city provide them with an option to study in an integrated, bilingual school that treats both languages, cultures and the three monotheistic religions equally.

The parents claim that the arrangement being offered to them by the city is not actually equal and does not satisfy their needs.

There are only seven integrated, bilingual schools in all of Israel.

Published by Telesur, March 9, 2016

 

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa participated in an inaugural event marking the launch of the country’s eighth bilingual school, forming part of a national strategy to strengthen Indigenous identity.“Our challenge is to overcome poverty without losing our identity, in order to maintain such identity, we must strengthen bilingual education,” Correa stated during his inaugural speech Tuesday at the Wankurishpa Yachana Pampa Mushuk Ayllu school in Orellana.