Victor Mair wrote on Language Log last month about a test in what appears to have been a third-year class in Chinese at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, in New York. What made it news in ...

NEW YORK – Paul and Denise Gamble have never been to China, and they were never particularly interested in its language or culture. Yet their two school-age children attend Shuang Wen Academy, a ...

JOE LUMAYA/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Newbury Park High School's Kevin Yu (from middle left) and Westlake High's Kyle Lee work with Madrona Elementary summer camp students Dylan Hurwitz (left), 8, and Bella ...

Since its quiet beginning in 1981, when four children showed up for the first day of classes, the Chinese American International School in San Francisco has been teaching students to speak, read and ...

Zhaoting Xia sits at the front of her classroom at Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary School in Lafayette, facing a group of kindergarteners while holding a basket of fake fruit and veggies in her ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

LAWTON, Okla. — Zheng Yue, a young woman from China who is teaching her native language to students in this town on the Oklahoma grasslands, was explaining a ...

Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC), a leading media powerhouse in China, has partnered with Phoenix Science Press and Jiangsu Phoenix Vocational Education Press to launch two groundbreaking books ...

At the Duncan Middle School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., a sort of linguistic wrestling match takes place every afternoon pitting about a dozen students, ages 12 to 14, against a formidable foe: ...

BEIJING — A major university in southern China has barred a professor from teaching after female students went public with sexual harassment allegations against him, unhappy that the university had ...