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Massive Genetic Study Reveals Insights into Reading Difficulty, Dyslexia Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Germany, and other institutions have completed the biggest genetic study ever on dyslexia. T...

Massive Genetic Study Reveals Insights into #Reading Difficulty, #Dyslexia languagemagazine.com/2025/10/17/m...

The Future of English Testing Can’t Wait English testing is at a crossroads. Every year, millions of international students bet their futures on English proficiency tests. These assessments determine who gains entry to the world’s top univer...

The Future of English Testing Can’t Wait

Omar Chihane explains how language testing is being reinvented for the benefit of learners
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The Courage to Learn Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and James Marshall explain how to communicate success criteria to motivate multilingual learners Learning is hard. In fact, there is compelling evidence that exerting menta...

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Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and James Marshall explain how to communicate success criteria to motivate multilingual learners
#SEL #MLL #ELL #language #bilingual

My kids love their teachers 💕 and so do I. Thank you educators!!

IBBY and UNESCO Launch Global Call for Books in Indigenous and Endangered Languages IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and UNESCO have launched a global call for books to be included in their Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endange...

IBBY and UNESCO Launch Global Call for Books in #Indigenous and Endangered Languages languagemagazine.com/2025/10/02/i...

Putin Supports Global Russian Language Promotion Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed support for a proposal to create a national center that would promote Russian as a second language around the world, similar to China’s Confucius Institu...

Putin Supports Global #Russian Language Promotion languagemagazine.com/2025/08/01/p...

The Future of Language Testing* Isn’t Testing *Actually, “assessment” is the correct term to use here, but using “testing” makes the title much more interesting. Language testing evolved from simple multiple-choice paper tests and one-on-one in-p...

The Future of #Language Testing* Isn’t #Testing languagemagazine.com/2025/09/26/t...
David Bong and Scott Payne discuss how AI can help to replace testing with multidimensional assessments integrated into the learning process

Calling All Bilingual Changemakers Over the last three decades, the field of education in the US has experienced a growing demand for dual language and biliteracy programs. The dissemination of research that highlights the cognitive, s...

Calling All #Bilingual Changemakers languagemagazine.com/2025/07/02/c... Rubí Flores explains why your #language skills are needed in #DualLanguage and #Biliteracy classrooms

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Pre-K to K Activities to Enhance Fine Motor Skills When children master tasks like holding a pencil or buttoning a shirt, they gain more than skills—they gain independence. These everyday moments are where confidence begins to grow.In our free on-dema...

Pre-K to K Activities to Enhance Fine Motor Skills languagemagazine.com/2025/09/10/p...

Language of Identity, Language of Access Moving Beyond Binary Thinking about Language in the Classroom The concept of academic language is most widely attributed to Jim Cummins, who introduced the distinction between Basic Interpersonal Comm...

Language of Identity, Language of Access languagemagazine.com/2025/09/16/l...
Michelle Benegas and Natalia Benjamin explore liberatory learning in multilingual classrooms

Language Access Encourages Integration Recent federal directives insisting upon English-only communications in public institutions should be a cause for concern not only for liberals committed to equity and inclusivity but for anyone looki...

#Language Access Encourages #Integration languagemagazine.com/2025/09/15/l...

AI AS A TOOL FOR INCLUSIVE BILINGUAL EDUCATION Lizdelia Piñón believes AI won’t replace bilingual educators, but it can empower them Bilingual educators often serve as a bridge for students navigating two worlds academically, linguistically,and cu...

AI AS A TOOL FOR INCLUSIVE BILINGUAL EDUCATION languagemagazine.com/2025/09/01/a...

The Three Elements of Reading Comprehension We’ve all heard that when students can read on grade level by the end of grade three, their academic path forward is greatly facilitated. As a result, many states have enacted policies and testing req...

The Three Elements of #Reading #Comprehension languagemagazine.com/2022/04/07/t...
Gene Kerns reimagines an approach to literacy education that extends well beyond third grade

Growing Demand for Korean Spurs New Sejong Institutes Worldwide This year, 11 new King Sejong Institutes will open across nine countries, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. With the new centers, there will be a total of 252 institu...

Growing Demand for #Korean Spurs New Sejong Institutes Worldwide languagemagazine.com/2025/09/03/g... #languagelearning

Spain Introduces Fast-Track in Response to US Student Restrictions Spain’s Minister of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration, Elma Saiz, has announced the preparation of a fast-track access route to the Spanish university system for international students affecte...

Spain Introduces Fast-Track in Response to US Student Restrictions languagemagazine.com/2025/09/01/s...

Nine Dimensions of Scaffolding Linguistic diversity among our multilingual students in grades pre-K–12 has been steadily increasing over the last 15 years, and with changing classroom dynamics, we need strong, intentional instructi...

Nine Dimensions of Scaffolding languagemagazine.com/2025/08/29/n... Carrie McDermott Goldman, Maria G. Dove, and Andrea Honigsfeld explain how to create a support system that empowers learners to master #language and content simultaneously

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Michelle and I had the amazing opportunity to write an article for @langmag.bsky.social on Liberatory Learning through the Language of Identity, Language of Access. Thank you @corwinpress.bsky.social and Dan at Language Magazine for working with us!

Reimagine the Science of Reading Through a Multilingual Lens As the Science of Reading (SoR) gains traction across states, schools, and teacher preparation programs, a pressing question has emerged: How well does the SoR framework serve multilingual learners (M...

Reimagine the #ScienceofReading Through a #Multilingual Lens languagemagazine.com/2025/08/13/r... #SoR #literacy #reading

Skibidi Lexicographer Gets Delulu Over Tradwife Skibidi, delulu, tradwife, and broligarchy are among the more than 6000 new English words, phrases and meanings that have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s most popular online dictio...

Skibidi Lexicographer Gets Delulu Over Tradwife languagemagazine.com/2025/08/21/s...

Reimagine the Science of Reading Through a Multilingual Lens As the Science of Reading (SoR) gains traction across states, schools, and teacher preparation programs, a pressing question has emerged: How well does the SoR framework serve multilingual learners (M...

Reimagine the #ScienceofReading Through a #Multilingual Lens languagemagazine.com/2025/08/13/r...

English’s Feminine Spin When English speakers think about “vocabulary,” we tend to think of words that were borrowed into the language from Latin or Greek or French—like the words vocabulary and language. So many new words f...

English’s Feminine Spin languagemagazine.com/2025/07/28/e...

Intelligent Assessment If the words AI and assessment are in the same sentence, the knee-jerk reaction is panic, as fears of technophobia, over-standardization, miscalculation, bias, security, and mistrust are mixed togethe...

Intelligent Assessment languagemagazine.com/2024/09/17/i...

Making School Part of the Community Multilingual learners are the fastest growing population of students in our country. If you think about the history and legacy of multilingual learners and young people who speak languages other than ...

Making #School Part of the #Community languagemagazine.com/2025/07/29/m...

$6B Federal Funds for ELLs, PD, Literacy to be Released languagemagazine.com/2025/07/25/6... #education #funding

Research Empowers Local Decision-Makers - #Language Magazine Research Empowers #Education Leaders languagemagazine.com/2025/07/14/r...

Calling All Bilingual Changemakers languagemagazine.com/2025/07/02/c...
Rubí Flores explains why your language skills are needed in Dual Language and Biliteracy classrooms

At least half of the 50 states are facing critical bilingual teacher shortages.

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Nahuatl is the language that was spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, and it is still spoken today by more than a million Nahua people. It was the language of the Aztecs.

#Portuguese Celebrates Digitization of “Most-Spoken #Language in Southern Hemisphere” languagemagazine.com/2025/06/24/p...