A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English-language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure ...

For years I’ve thought that the federal government requires school districts to administer a home-language survey to parents when they enroll a child in school to determine whether a language other ...

To speak or not to speak? How important is one’s home language or mother tongue? These are questions that immigrant families ponder. While there is no clear answer to the questions, here are four ...

THEmajority of South African children do not know how to read or write in theirmother tongue because of the influence of English and the choice to makeEnglish their first language. It doesn't help ...

Rauno Parrila receives funding from Australian Research Council and Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Valeria Maria Rigobon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Laurette Marais works for the CSIR. This work has been funded by the South African Department of Sport, Arts and Culture. Laurette Pretorius consults to the CSIR ...

English is one of the key exam papers that matric learners write. Here's a collection of past English Home Language (HL) papers plus memos to help you prepare for the matric finals. We'd also like to ...