Dr Kimberly Vinall is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Language Center (BLC). Dr. Vinall received her PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 and her MA in Hispanic ...

How are foreign languages learnt and second languages acquired? Many answers to these questions remain hypothetical in relevant research, though some reliable findings are also available. An overview.

Current trends in areas such as politics, business, the media landscape or indeed didactics are posing ever new challenges for teachers and learners of German as a foreign language (GFL). The ...

Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

The Confucius Institute at the University of Sheffield successfully held the next talk in its annual China Seminar Series: Online Chinese Language Learning and Teaching during COVID-19 and Its ...

At the heart of France’s educational, cultural and economic policy, the network of French schools abroad supports the growth of French communities and businesses in the world. It also helps promote ...

While it is not always possible to find out everything about your students before you start teaching them, do find out as much as you can to inform your planning and design of materials and learning.