While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly free. By ...

SAN DIEGO — “English” by Sanaz Toossi, an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2023. Modest in scope, the play is wrought with an emotional delicacy that ...

An executive summary of “Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: A Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth” is posted by the Washington-based Center for ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is prepared to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States for the first time in the nation's history, a White House ...

Of all the reasons my husband and I decided to make New York our home twelve years ago, when we first arrived from Argentina, the city’s linguistic diversity was a major consideration. Spanish, our ...

A significant demand for well-trained English as a second language (ESL) teachers exists throughout the United States. In areas such as education, business, hospitality and many more, the ...