In the winter of 1936, George Orwell went up North to write about unemployment for the Left-wing publisher Victor Gollancz.

For the first time since the pandemic, California has released data showing how many English learners became proficient in English.

As our new Education Secretary rethinks how we learn about language, Eliot Wilson on one of the most forgotten and seminal English texts. Five hundred yea ...

During a reading lesson, Mateo, an elementary multilingual learner (MLL) in a Delaware public school, read "sit" as "seat." Jon Kittle, his reading interventionist, walked him through the short vowel ...

Here is what I have learned leading English-learner programs in large Texas districts: In the first weeks of school, every ...

Four-in-ten Americans say it is extremely or very important for children growing up in the U.S. to learn a language other than English.

Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear anthropologist April Nowell explain the origins of language.