Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing teachers’ favorite lessons for English- language-learner newcomers. Even though the school year is over, or near its end, for most of us, it’s never too ...

An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

Seven years later, children who start learning English in the first grade achieve poorer results in this subject than children whose first English lesson isn’t until the third grade. The researchers ...

Dame Andrea Jenkyns says the funding will be reallocated and spent on literacy skills for everyone.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver Public Schools, working to find new ways to reach out to parents and the community, last week renewed its partnership with a Texas-based group that ...

Frank Monaghan is affiliated with NALDIC (National Association for Language Develoment in the Curriculum), the UK's professional association for people working with EAL in schools. As a researcher ...

Dame Andrea Jenkyns is directing funding towards literacy programmes which she hopes will get people into work ...