As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

Hoping to entice more non-English speakers to enroll in community college, California is making it easier for those students to take courses in their native language. Currently, students in California ...

The school’s English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program — a term that describes courses for non-native English speakers to develop better English language competency — will focus on ...

On my first day at Penn, I called my father in distress, telling him I needed to move back home and study there as I was going to die alone at this university. My father asked why, and I quickly ...

The first language a person learns is known as their native language and is usually a major part of their identity, shaping their earliest thoughts and connecting them with their culture and heritage.

Mr. Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor at Amherst College and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The People’s Tongue: Americans and the ...

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A native ...