American University Bilingual Education

Alaska becomes the second state to officially recognize indigenous languages Dedicated supporters staged a 15 hour sit-in until the early this morning, when the Alaska Senate passed the measure on an 18-2 vote.

Happy to announce that professors Amelia Tseng (Education; Director of BIED) and Noemí Enchautegui de Jesús (Psychology) have been awarded a $10,000 2016 MPC Faculty Grant from the American University Metropolitan Policy Center for the proposal, “Bilingualism and Latin@s in D.C.: Exploring Language Use and Cultural Identity, Resource Access, and Metropolitan Mobility.”

So proud and impressed by my students' great independent research on bilingual education this semester, using socio/applied linguistics, anthropology, and critical education theory. EDU 650 Int'l Perspectives on BIED and EDU 624 Language, Schooling, and Nation-building students rock! Great to have Consortium students from Georgetown and Gallaudet in class as well!

FIU professor targets ‘word gap’ in Hispanic children Source: FIU.edu By Nicole Montero Linguistics professor chosen as one of 10 “Word Gap Challenge” winners When Melissa Baralt started looking into the “word gap” – the difference between the number …

Speed Networking with yPIE Come join yPIE: Young Professionals in International Education in DC for: Speed Networking Wednesday, April 20 at NAFSA: Association of International Educators 1307 New York Ave NW | 7th Floor Doors open at 5:30 PM | Program starts at 6:00 PM This Speed Networking event will provide you with a chan…

AERA 2016 Reception GW's Graduate School of Education and Human Development and American University's School of Education invite you to join us at a reception during the 2016 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. We look forward to seeing you there!

Save the date! Community-Based Heritage Language Schools: Promoting Collaboration and Advocacy Among Educators, Families, and Researchers

Date: Saturday, October 1, 2016
Location: American University, Washington DC
Registration will begin in June, 2016.

We are excited to announce that the keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be Dr. Kim Potowski, University of Illinois, Chicago, a leader in heritage language and multilingual education and a popular speaker at many events.

Many language communities in the United States have well-established schools and programs that teach a wide variety of heritage languages. These programs face similar challenges, which include maintaining sustainable funding levels, involving families fully and effectively in the language development enterprise, finding and supporting effective teachers, developing curriculum and materials that engage students and promote learning, and receiving recognition from the formal public and private school education community.

The plan to connect different community-based language schools and to discuss and address those challenges together has been the vision of our conferences at American University since we started in 2014, and they have been very successful.

This year’s conference will bring together teachers, administrators, and parents involved in community-based language schools, along with language researchers and educators in other bilingual programs, to explore ways to keep addressing these issues together.

The conference will feature presentations and workshops by leaders in the field of heritage language education who will share best practices and lead discussions to help us collaboratively seek effective solutions to common challenges.

This conference serves as a powerful venue for building productive partnerships in which community-based language schools work in collaboration with each other and with parents; public, private, and charter school programs; universities; and language organizations to advance the goal of supporting the rich heritage language resources in our country.

Organized by the AU School of Education and AU TESOL Program
Co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics

Joven Oaxaqueño crea App para traducir al Zapoteco. Joven Oaxaqueño crea App para traducir al Zapoteco. Resto del País Edit Foto de Internet En el estado de Oaxaca, una de las entidades con mayor pobreza en nuestra país, no es impedimento para que jóvenes con grandes ideas sobresalgan. Tal es el caso de Gonzalo Santiago Martínez, un joven de 22 año…

Need for Bilingual Educators Moves School Recruitment Abroad For big-city districts, Puerto Rico and Spain have becoming recruiting hot spots amid a shortage of teachers for dual-immersion and English-as-a-second-language programs.

The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals Yet another benefit to speaking multiple languages.

Spanish Heritage program at Roosevelt High helps boost Latino graduation rates, student voice Now in its third year, the program — developed using a culturally relevant pedagogy — has already begun garnering national attention from educators looking to better support their native Spanish speakers.

"School officials think the broad benefits that ­foreign-language programs can have on students’ cognitive abilities will make the program a perfect fit for Houston."

One D.C. school is turning to Spanish immersion to help its students learn English D.C. Public Schools plans to open its first dual language program east of the Anacostia.