The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — our national birth certificate and mission ...

Scroll down to see the map. Anyone who's tried to learn a little bit of the local language before going on vacation will probably know the feeling. You've brushed up on your vocab and done a few ...

Due to the high percentage of Americans of German origin, a widespread belief has emerged claiming that the US Congress, at ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Just over half of Americans think it's important to make English the country's official language, according to results of a survey released last week. The Washington, D.C.-based Pew ...

Jan. 7, 2007 — -- There are 1,100 employees in the U.S. embassy in Iraq, all living in the middle of a war among and against Arabic-speaking enemies. Of those embassy employees, the Iraq Study ...

The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams. In March of this year, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14224 establishing English as the official language of the United States of ...

Kraig Klingenberg’s road to teaching the popular new American Sign Language course at Duke was circuitous. In grade school Klingenberg had a classmate whose mom was Deaf, and he became interested in ...

Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013, titled Language education, race, and the remaking of American citizenship in Los Angeles, ...

On my first solo trip to Spain as a college student, I confidently boarded a bus in Madrid to buy a ticket. I mispronounced my words and asked for a napkin instead of a ticket. Flustered by the driver ...