Such requirements have led to a flourishing industry devoted to training people to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL). Related: Search for teaching and education jobs.

“Liberia is an English speaking country,” he said. “Former slaves and slave owners decided to organize themselves to let go ...

Foreign language and, more importantly, acquiring the higher-level experiences that are enabled by that facility in the foreign language — study abroad, engagement with intellectual works in the ...

The Vietnamese government's initiative to establish English as the official second language in the education system further aims to bolster the country's global integration and development. Language ...

Native English and Spanish speakers performed significantly better than chance when identifying the meanings of unfamiliar foreign language words, suggesting that the sound of words holds some ...

English is the official language of the West African country, which was founded in part by freed American slaves.

In the foreign languages category, Hebrew, a first in the state’s curriculum, is now on offer along with other foreign languages such as German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Persian and ...

Periodic surveys by the Modern Language Association have found that more than 16 college and university students out of every 100 took foreign language courses in 1960, a number that fell to 7.5 ...