First graders (from left) Mu July Htoo, Mya Paw, Say Ku Paw and Soe Paw participated in an English as a Second Language class at Wallace Elementary in Dallas. The majority of the students in this ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or “language loss,” among bi- and ...

Senior Practitioner Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London Imagine a ten-year-old girl who has been through things no child should ever have ...

Indigenous languages throughout North America are teetering on extinction. In Southeast Alaska, less than 200 people can speak Tlingit, Haida, or Tsimshian. But a Tlingit language expert suggests ...