The government’s new curriculum guidelines for English-language lessons at junior high schools have been criticized as so difficult that students are growing to detest the subject. At public schools, ...

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 ...

The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into ...

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 ...

AOL Latino, America Online's bilingual Internet service for U.S. Hispanics, has teamed up with Berlitz International to offer English language lessons for free to its members. The entire language ...

IBERIA PARISH — Acadiana is a region rich in diverse languages and cultures, and many newcomers have made sacrifices to adapt, including learning English to better integrate into their communities.

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.

Teaching English may well be the 21st century’s most promising way to take the Good News to the world “For it is by grace you have been saved,” I repeated after the missionary who was my ...

The mayor of Lincolnshire is considering scrapping English lessons for foreign nationals. Dame Andrea Jenkyns said the £1m budget should be used on a "scheme which focuses on literacy and numeracy to ...