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English Learners Need More Federal Support to Succeed, Not Less A new brief identifies key barriers preventing Title III from fulfilling its goals, making the case for continual federal involvement.

"A new report evaluating research evidence on Title III suggests that the program’s ability to achieve its goals has more to do with inadequate funding than ED’s ability to effectively administer it."

#languageeducation #languageresearch #languagelearning

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<em>The Modern Language Journal</em> | NFMLTA Journal | Wiley Online Library <em>The Modern Language Journal</em> is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among researchers and teachers of all modern foreign languages and English as a second language.

"The Modern Language Journal is pleased to invite contributions to a special thematic collection entitled 'Research–Practice Partnerships: Shaping Next-Generation Language Learning Research.'"

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ACTA’s New Report Shows Foreign Language Study Is in Freefall at U.S. Colleges Washington, DC — The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released Ivory Tower of Babel: Rebuilding Language Learning in Higher Education for a More Secure and Competitive America, a new...

"Today, only 11% of colleges and universities require foreign language study at the intermediate level, the minimum needed for effective communication and intercultural awareness."

#languages #languageeducation #languagelearning #languageresearch #langchat

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What Happens When Classrooms Speak Your Language? A story of language, belonging, and how UNICEF's partnership with Odisha is strengthening foundational learning outcomes for children from tribal communitie

"When the learning environment doesn't speak your language, it doesn't matter how smart you are. You're locked out."

#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat

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The End of Language As We Know It? Scientists Challenge 60 Years of Linguistic Research An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

"Their central claim is clear: language is not merely a spoken code. Instead, it is a dynamic, multimodal, socially grounded system shaped through interaction, culture, and shared meaning."

#languages #languageresearch #languagelearning #langchat #languageeducation

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Bilingual Creativity Gap: Native Language Sparks Brighter Ideas - Neuroscience News Bilingual individuals are more creative in their native language due to more vivid mental imagery and deeper sensory connections.

"[T]he more vividly you can picture something, the more creative you tend to be. And, your native language seems to help you picture things more vividly."

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40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears i...

"[T]hese sign sequences go beyond decoration that was aesthetically pleasing to particular individuals...[O]ur statistical results show that these signs were applied selectively and conventionally."

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How literacy and mother languages are empowering communities This year’s edition of International Mother Language Day, celebrated on 21 February, highlights the vital role of youth in shaping multilingual education. Language is more than a communication tool

“Mother languages are not relics of the past, but living knowledge systems that carry values, solutions, and ways of relating to the world."

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What two decades with Hyow taught me about language loss The word ‘Hyow’ refers to the Chin ethnic community, which belongs to the South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family.

"Before a language falls silent, what it needs most is commitment from scholars, institutions, and the community itself."

#languages #languageeducation #languagelearning #langchat #languageresearch

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One World, One Language? UConn Professor on Personal Quest to Reclaim Endangered Languages - UConn Today Even as thousands of languages are endangered, efforts to save them are underway

"[T]here are somewhere between 6,000 and 7,000 distinct languages still in use around the world. Studies have found that at least 40% are endangered, and on average, a language disappears every two weeks."

#languages #langchat #languageresearch #languageeducation

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🔗 Read the full study: doi.org/10.1016/j.sy... (First published November 2025)

From all of us at GRAL, we wish you a productive and stress-free week ahead! ☕️✨

#GRAL #SLA #Aptitude #VocabularyLearning #LanguageResearch #AppliedLinguistics #YoungLearners #Bilingualism

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What is The Linguistic Role of Colloquial Suffixes in Regional Dialects and Slang - Gonzay.com These suffixes hold a feeling of informality, regional taste and closeness in discussion people make in everyday lives.

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10 Most-spoken Languages in the World (2 Are From India) If you are searching for the most-spoken languages in the world, you are really asking how people communicate across culture, history, and geography.

"Organizations like SIL International track language speakers, but totals vary depending on whether dialects are counted separately and how language proficiency is measured."

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New Connections Discovered Between the Ancient Iberian Language and Basque, Beyond Numbers A recent study carried out by researcher Eduardo Orduña Aznar of the University of Barcelona provides new data on one of the most persistent enigmas in the linguistic history of the Iberian Peninsula:...

"The puzzle of the origin of Basque and of the pre-Roman languages of the peninsula may be, piece by piece, beginning to fall into place."

#language #languageresearch #languageeducation #languagelearning #langchat

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Student Superheroes Launch Bid To Save Modern Languages A hand-picked team of multilingual superheroes is on a mission to show the next generation that learning modern foreign languages can be fun — and open the door to future success.

"This initiative prepares student linguists to visit local state primary and secondary schools to breathe new life into language learning."

#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat

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"The English Learner Education Support grant program facilitates the development of alternative bilingual education programs, enriches curricular materials, and fosters resources like bilingual education hubs."

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The Road (Many Times) Taken Gorka Bilbao Terreros argues that we need to look beyond the practical, career-focused benefits of world language education and stress the personal and societal positivity to inspire prospective stude...

"The danger lies in embedding the value of our discipline—and of academia in general—within the logic of profit, as it is precisely this logic that threatens its very continuity."

#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat

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💡 If you’re interested in EEG, dyslexia, functional connectivity, oscillatory biomarkers, or clinical neurophysiology, I’d love to hear your comments or ideas!

#ClinicalNeurophysiology #EEG #ScientificPublication #Dyslexia #LanguageResearch #Reading #DevelopmentalDyslexia #Brain #ChildNeurology

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Oklahoma regents vote to cut 41 ‘low-producing’ academic programs The state coordinating board also moved to suspend another 21 programs across Oklahoma's public institutions.

"The flagship will, however, see a number of world language programs end, including those in Chinese, Arabic, French and German."

#languages #languagelearning #languageresearch #languageeducation #langchat

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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

“These disparate sources have never before been brought together in a way that offers such an insight into the nature of Celtic languages spoken in these islands at the dawn of the historical period."

#languageresearch #languagelearning #languageeducation

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New study reveals why unknown languages sound like a blur | BPS Two papers home in on a brain area responsible for spotting the separations between words, previously thought to only handle simple auditory processing.

"It's like a kind of reboot, where the brain has processed a word it recognises, and then resets so it can start in on the next word."

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Do different languages change the way we think? - The Oxford Blue Sophie Harrison explores how different languages shape our perception and how linguistic diversity reveals multiple cognitive worlds.

"Far from the curse of Babel, linguistic diversity might instead reveal how many different worlds can exist within the mind."

#languages #languageresearch #languageeducation #languagelearning #langchat

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Federal Cuts Force Harvard Programs To Suspend Language Study Fellowships | News | The Harvard Crimson When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs receiving grants through the Education Department’s International and Foreign Language Educati...

"[T]he Education Department’s decision' is disappointing on many levels, not least of which is the defunding of programs that have been pivotal in expanding access to knowledge in the US and globally.'"

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California must invest in a multilingual teacher workforce | Opinion “Nearly 40% of California’s students are multilingual learners, yet the state’s teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly monolingual.”

"These steps cost far less than chronic teacher shortages, constant turnover, higher absenteeism and the long-term economic losses that come when we fail multilingual learners year after year."

#languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat

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Last call! Visit nfmlta.org for more information about this grant opportunity.

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Taiwan, US universities tighten ties on Mandarin - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

"Seven Mandarin learning centers were set up in the US to provide systemic teaching support and Mandarin teacher training."

#languages #languagelearning #languageeducation #languageresearch #langchat

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Neuroscientists Studied More Than 80,000 People and Found That Speaking Multiple Languages Might Slow Down Brain Aging An enormous analysis of data from a broad array of participants found an association between multilingualism and cognitive aging

"Computer analyses suggested that multilingual speakers are about half as likely to experience accelerated aging compared with those who speak only one language...And the more languages one speaks, the better."

#langaugelearning #languageresearch #langchat

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America the Multilingual María Carreira recognizes the value of apps in making language learning more popular and teachers more effective There’s an old joke widely used among language teachers: What do you call someone who s...

"Though it may seem surprising, we are living in an era of unprecedented engagement with language learning across the US."

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Mark your calendars! Applications open on January 1, 2026. Visit nfmlta.org for more information.

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