Driven by the war in Afghanistan, instructors at four colleges are scrambling to offer traditional and distance-education courses in Pashto, a language virtually untaught in America but spoken by more ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Murfreesboro youth center will begin offering English language classes to immigrants and refugees. Abdou Kattih said he started Murfreesboro Muslim Youth in a garage ...

Julie Dearden receives funding from the British Council. Universities and schools across the globe are offering an increasing number of courses taught in English. Parents and politicians alike are ...

An international research team has examined how English lessons in primary school affect language proficiency in this subject in secondary school. Children who started learning English in the first ...

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 ...

English language education could be slashed in a part of Wales in an effort to bolster the use of Welsh language in schools. Gwynedd, one of two counties where Welsh is spoken by the majority of ...

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.