The Johnson O'Malley Program is a federal initiative that allocates funding to public schools to provide culturally rich ...

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 ...

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the  Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

An academic review of research suggests a link between an indigenous community’s language vitality and its members’ health. For more than two centuries, U.S. government programs such as mandatory ...

A number of Washington state public schools are partnering with tribes to bring Indigenous languages into classrooms in an effort to rectify the marred history of Native American boarding schools.

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.

Classrooms at Unalaska City High School are usually empty on Friday evenings as students and staff headed off for the weekend. But on one winter Friday, things were different. A group of people ...

For most of us, presenting confidently and clearly in our native language is hard enough. But communicating in another language is marked by unique challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately ...

This video features an American polyglot speaking different native languages with strangers on Omegle. It captures natural reactions, curiosity, and everyday conversations as people hear their own ...

On April 1, scientists will officially restart their search for gravitational waves after a year spent making improvements to massive twin detectors. Discoveries should soon start rolling in, and when ...