Massachusetts high schools struggle to balance supporting mastery of English and progress toward graduation for immigrant newcomers, according to a new report led by researchers at Brown.

Active family engagement is essential to ensuring children benefit fully from early childhood education and care programs. Yet language barriers and cultural misunderstandings can sometimes keep educators and the families of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) from forming this important partnership. This policy brief explores strategies to better utilize federal funding to engage with DLL children and families.

Modeling, pre-teaching, and effective use of visuals can help students, speakers at an EdWeek forum said.

What linguistics expert Dr. Antoinette Barffour's research reveals.

Gen Z's global academic aspirations are driving a seismic shift in English proficiency testing. TOEFL iBT's enhanced adaptive format now mirrors digital-first learning, integrating real-world scenarios for academic and social readiness. This evolution prepares Indian students for cultural integration and success abroad, emphasizing practical skills over traditional methods.

While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well into later life.

In this talk, Karolina examines when bilingual children reach key early language milestones, babbling, first words, and first word combinations, between 0 and 3 years of age.

New research cautions districts from defaulting to grouping all English learners together.

The study reveals that the use of the mother tongue as the language of instruction in primary grades contributes largely to reading comprehension in secondary languages, such as Filipino and English, among Grade 4 learners

The first cohort from a research project designed to improve student achievement among multilingual learners has wrapped up its work with Clemson

Diana Quintero finds third-grade retention boosts ML-ELs' short-term gains, but lasting benefits depend on school support.

New study finds a common neural system builds a language across languages

Study shows comprehension intervention, working memory predict math achievement in English learners

Researchers discover that the brain proactively builds sentence structures during speech using predictive processing, explaining why second-language listening is difficult.

Bilingual people use largely the same brain system to understand meaning in both their languages, but each language subtly reshapes how that system processes different categories of words, according to new research from UC Berkeley. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used functional MRI to record the brain

KINGSTON, R.I. – Feb. 18, 2026 – The University of Rhode Island has launched a new Translanguaging Lab, an interdisciplinary research collective within the University’s Feinstein College of Education. According to URI Feinstein College Dean Danielle Dennis, the recently launched Translanguaging Lab is the first of its kind in the region. “We think it has […]

Researchers suggest English language arts teachers can use an array of strategies to help these learners hone skills to express complex ideas.

Children entering school from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families are more likely to face developmental challenges than their peers, according to a large population-based study in Western Australia. Researchers found that nearly one in four CALD children displayed vulnerabilities in at least one key developmental domain, with communication skills and general knowledge showing the largest gaps. These difficulties go beyond the classroom, shaping social integration, self-confiden

A study shows people with Rett syndrome, a rare genetic condition, can be bilingual, challenging long-held assumptions.