With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at ...

Kanani Mākaʻimoku and an aerial view of University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s Hilo Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian ...

I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

CHamorus living in the states had two weeks of immersion in the language through the Prugråman Sinipok or adult CHamoru Language and Culture Immersion Program held in California. The program, held at ...

Over the years, much research has been done on the cognitive benefits of second language learning. There are no secrets about the multitude of advantages of exposure to additional languages, cultures, ...

Starting an immersion program in an Alaska Native language comes with challenges: An educator often needs to create the curriculum and teaching materials themselves, and they sometimes need to work on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JEMEZ PUEBLO — The words escape slowly from Eleanor Tafoya when she speaks of the decline of the Jemez language among the Pueblo’s ...

ROCK HILL — On a typical day, a visitor walking the halls at the Cherry Park Elementary School of Language Immersion in Rock Hill will hear greetings of "hello," "hola" and "bonjour" exchanged between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French Ambassador Gérard Araud visits Oak Hollow Elementary, a French-English dual language immersion school, in Draper on Dec. 3, ...