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In this classroom, only English is spoken. The teacher, Marjan (Marjan Neshat), enforces this rule harshly — if you speak any other language, you get a tally mark. At five tallies, you are asked to ...

You can quickly learn a few useful phrases before you travel, or take the long road and work toward fluency with a lifetime ...

Scores nationwide and in California have yet to rebound from pandemic-era declines. Some outcomes continue to get worse. Low ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

How American data engineer Brian Linebaugh fell in love with Tamil and made a documentary titled 'Beyond Words'.

A study last year revealed that the proportions of undergraduate students who admitted to using generative AI to assist ...

Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...

The Americans had yet to declare independence, but revolution was brewing. The letter, addressed to “The Inhabitants of the ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...

Few are the standout gems—those plays that conquer an audience so wholly you feel a delicious two-way crackle in the room as ...

Musk’s purchase of Twitter and influence in Trump administration harks back to an era of wealthy moguls at the forefront of ...