The phrase “linguistic justice” can take on several meanings, but at Pitt, it means meeting students where they’re at.

Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom. Language ...

Students are able to search for current Global Classrooms in Banner by selecting advanced search, then typing Global Classrooms into the attribute tab. For the full list of previous Global Classrooms, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This overview of classroom-centered research on language teaching and learning is a survey of themes, not of research findings. Beginning with ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the role, if any, of an ELL student’s home language in the classroom? In Part One of this series, Melissa Eddington, Wendi Pillars, Tracey Flores, Sandy ...

In response to a growing demand for highly proficient speakers of foreign languages, both from private and government sectors, an added emphasis has been placed on immersion-type programs that offer ...

BOSTON (March 31, 2025) – In recent months, almost 2,000 schools and districts have purchased or renewed licenses for Lexia English Language Development (Lexia English) from Lexia, a Cambium Learning ...

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build on English learners’ strengths. Seventy-seven percent of 8th-grade ...

Masks can obscure a smile, muffle a voice, and make lip reading impossible. But those are minor obstacles to human interaction, says Lindsay Yazzolino, who is blind. "It's interesting to me how ...