Learning a second language can be a challenge, but it's a little easier when you learn that new language while you are young. That's why language immersion programs are becoming more popular in North ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

Immersion is based upon the premise that learning content through a new language builds proficiency in both the content and language. Yet, whatever the model (ranging from 80 to 50% of instruction in ...

I was walking along, minding my business, when out of the blue, a passer-by said, “Shikamoo” — the respectful Swahili greeting used by young people when addressing elders, which literally means "I ...

At BYU, language learning goes beyond textbooks. For students living in language housing, fluency starts right at home.

The Language Immersion Student Residence, formerly known as the Foreign Language Student Residence, recently changed its name with the goal of clarifying the program's purpose and eliminating ...

Students in Erin Weisenbeck’s first-grade classroom gathered on a rug Tuesday morning in the front of their classroom at Madison Elementary School. Weisenbeck sat before the group with a large book ...

Promising results from research on two-way language-immersion programs have pumped up the popularity of such programs in recent years. But some experts say that the three large-scale studies that ...

JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s youth. “If we don’t do anything, we’re going to lose our traditions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student reads from a Chinese children’s book as she and other students at Calvin Smith Elementary participate March 6, 2012 in ...