Even before the pandemic, it was a race against time to preserve Native American languages across the country. COVID-19 has accelerated this. The Cherokee Nation has had more than 30 of its 2,000 ...
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic more than two years ago, schools resorted to distance learning to continue operations. As the number of cases continues to decrease and many schools are going ...
The news of Maxine Wildcat Barnett’s Covid hospitalization in November shook the Yuchi community of Sapulpa, a small Oklahoma city named after its first settler, a Creek Native American. At 95, ...
Online learning during the coronavirus pandemic has brought many new challenges to the classroom. These challenges are especially noticeable in language courses. According to an article in The Daily ...
Social distancing may flatten the curve, but a new normal will require contact tracing. Barely three months ago, that sentence would have read as gobbledygook. Today, it makes sense in the context of ...
Teaching young learners in the pandemic has been challenging for many educators, but those instructing English language learners virtually face even steeper obstacles. Shuxin Chen, who teachers ...
In April, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary did something unusual. For the previous 20 years, they had issued quarterly updates to announce new words and meanings selected for inclusion.
THE SPOKANE people have an unusual way of saying “he got sick”: in their form of the Salish language it translates literally as “he was greeted by an illness”, using the ordinary verb for one person ...
In April, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary did something unusual. For the previous 20 years, they had issued quarterly updates to announce new words and meanings selected for inclusion.