When Monika Megyesi was growing up in Romania during the despotic reign of President Nicolae Ceausescu, she remembers her mother speaking of the United States as a land of opportunity. Today, like ...

Actually using a foreign language is among the best ways to learn one, and Coe and Cornell colleges believe they've found a way to help students do that while also serving the wider Cedar Rapids and ...

Enrollments in foreign-language courses tumbled nearly 17 percent between the fall of 2016 and the fall of 2021, the largest decline in the six decades the Modern Language Association has been ...

The department didn’t respond to a request for an update on the status of the two reports. Foreign-language advocates say they are discouraged that while President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of ...

Mary Ann Zehr, Education Week assistant editor. Kevin Bushweller (Moderator): Welcome to today’s chat about foreign-language education in the United States. This online discussion is part of an ...

Despite some concern last spring about funding for the University's Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum program, new courses are being offered under the program's auspices this fall. "Spanish 229: ...

Only 10% of people in the U.S. speak a foreign language proficiently. In comparison, in Europe, 65% of people can speak a second language other than their native tongue. Although the difference is ...