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I’m probably the youngest kid ever to be kicked out of first grade. Born in Seattle to immigrant parents, I was kicked out one school day in 1952 for not being able to speak English. My parents wanted ...

I started learning English right before I turned 10, at school, a natural feature of a publicly funded education in France. On top of this, and around the same time, a wave of language learning swept ...

The process of filing an insurance claim can be daunting—and even more so for the 1 in 5 U.S. residents who speak a language other than English at home. Language barriers make it difficult for people ...

Wendi Pillars, NBCT, has taught for nearly three decades, both overseas and stateside, in military and civilian contexts. She is the author of Visual Impact and Visual Notetaking for Educators. Find ...

Acquiring the ability to speak fluent English has been a decades-long pursuit for many Japanese toiling to master the ...

Many focus group participants described how difficulties speaking English impacted their ability to carry out daily tasks like shopping, going to the doctor or visiting a government office, ...

I felt her staring at me on the playground as I called out to my daughter. She must be someone’s grandmother, I thought. She must be curious, as people often are. Then she took one step toward me — ...

The research question that pursued Jessica Valdez, an OB-GYN resident physician at the University of California, San Francisco, stemmed from her mother’s womb: How important is it to a birthing ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How do you promote speaking with English-language learners? Obviously, when learning a new language, it’s important to be able to speak it. This extensive series will ...