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 ...

Language immersion programs present a range of opportunities and challenges for practitioners. Many language teachers welcome the opportunity to create an immersive language environment in which their ...

This week’s question is: What are the best ways to teach the Next Generation Science Standards to English Language Learners? In addition to having to learn a new language and adapt to a new culture, ...

Twenty-one Bowdoin student teachers helped stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance for local elementary school children recently. It’s a part of a program to promote tolerance and to advance ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most common mistakes teachers make when working with ELLs, and what should they do, instead? Many of us who teach English-language learners make ...

Hominin reliance on Oldowan stone tools—which appear from 2.5 mya and are believed to have been socially transmitted—has been hypothesized to have led to the evolution of teaching and language. Here ...

Nick Mireles is a writer on the central coast of California. He has a knack for film, music, and Dungeons and Dragons. When he’s not writing, he tries to spend his days reading, surfing, and camping ...

A common struggle for Aboriginal elders is how to make their language and culture appeal to young people in order for language to be carried on. The use of story and song is one way the community is ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...