Two recent trends in education are diversifying how students learn, but converging to create a major challenge for educators: Multilingual education is on the rise. Since the 1990s, the number of U.S.

Education Asst. Prof. Johanna Tigert has experienced the challenges of learning and teaching multiple languages firsthand. She grew up in Finland studying several languages, earned a university degree ...

Seven BPS schools will launch new multilingual education programs in the 2025-2026 school year, the district announced Monday, marking the largest single-year surge in BPS’s language offerings.

Hilda Robles instructs fourth-grade students learning about body parts in Spanish in Clinton County’s Bi-Literacy program. (Photo by Esmeralda Cruz) Throughout rural America, non-native English ...

In today’s world, multilingual contexts are the norm rather than the exception. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Atlas of Languages reveals that ...

International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is celebrated on February 21 New Delhi: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) celebrates International Mother Language Day ...

Nearly 40% of the global population does not have access to education in a language they speak or understand, according to UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring (GEM) team. "In some low- and ...

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Some legislators and administrators have questioned the efficacy of the mother tongue as medium of instruction, and want to return to the former bilingual policy of only using English and Filipino.

Under the theme “Fostering multilingualism for inclusion in education and society”, the 2021 International Mother Language Day was organized on 25 February 2021. Hosted by UNESCO, as a part of the ...