The widespread role of English as an international lingua franca opens up many opportunities for trained English teachers globally. Increasingly, EFL (English as a foreign language) providers want to ...

Only 25% of Americans speak a second language. We rest on our laurels as speakers of English, believing that everyone else is learning our language—the language of business. And in many countries ...

It's no secret that English borrows freely — steals, actually — from other languages. And you're probably familiar with at least a few words from English that have been borrowed into other languages — ...

Vietnam will make English a mandatory subject from grade 1 under a nationwide plan to establish it as a second language in ...

Something has been going wrong with psychology experiments. Only 12 percent of the world’s population is from Western industrialized countries—yet 96 percent of the participants in psychology ...

Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Haitian Creole are the top five home languages for English-language learners in the nation’s K-12 public schools, according to a new report from the U.S.

Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices could depend on whether you are using a foreign language or your native tongue. A new study from psychologists at the University of ...

The undergraduate certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) is designed to provide students with an overarching background in language use, language learning and culture.