Language Education Outside the U.S.

Despite more liberalisation of teaching foreign languages, English will remain compulsory for pupils.

THE discussion around the Gaelic language in Scotland has tended to veer towards the romantic, the ethereal, and occasionally the political. It can…

That Brexit has put Britis pupils off studying languages is tragic – it opens up whole new worlds, says Guardian columnist and author Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Improving national schools would help turn more parents towards them instead of outright abolishing vernacular schools.

In ‘dual immersion’ method, literature, humanities, social science are taught in the child’s first language, science and math in English

KUCHING: Sarawak needs to train more than 3,000 teachers to be proficient in English to prepare them to teach Science and Mathematics in the language. Education, Science and Technological Research Minister Dato Sri Michael Manyin Jawong said 891 out of the 1,265 primary schools in the state are in need of teachers to teach theRead More

Qatar Foundation (QF) has announced the launch of Academyati, a progressive school under the umbrella of its Pre-University Education (PUE), with admissions now open for the 2019-2020 academic year.

We want children to succeed and some believe the myth that English language education is the (only) way to get there, but here are five truths that support Indigenous bilingual education.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal has explained its reasons for its compulsory Zulu module after a Durban father complained.

A key part of China's campaign against Uyghur identity is a crackdown on the Uyghur language.

The draft National Education Policy 2019 stepped into controversy the moment it was made public, thanks to a clause that imposed Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states. As the storm raged, the panel decided to revise the draft to remove the clause that offended many, especially in Tamil Nadu. The chairperson of the committee, former ISRO chief Dr K Kasturirangan tells TNM that it was never the committee’s intention to impose Hindi, and that the clause had been misinterpreted. “Somehow, the paragraph that was put in there was open to interpretation.

Letters: Readers respond after the exams regulator Ofqual is accused of ‘killing off’ modern languages by marking them too harshly

Some primaries would be unable to afford specialist language teaching without the money they receive from overseas schemes

The report says that as English is not the native language of Taiwanese people, the difficulty level of promoting English as an official language should be carefully assessed.Taiwan’s Legislative Research Bureau, which is an agency under Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, suggested in a report that Taiwan should be cautious about making English the second official language of Taiwan

A median of 92% of European students are learning a language in school. Far fewer K-12 students in the U.S. participate in foreign language education.