English — with its hybrid history, its “sun never sets” empire, its American melting pot — just happens to be particularly ...

If we traveled in time to America at its founding, we would be as thrown by how people sounded as by the absence of ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 01: An immigrants rights supporter holds a sign reading 'Immigrants Make America Great' before marching downtown during a 'March for Dignity' on March 01, 2025 in Los ...

“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...

The U.S. Department of Justice released guidance to federal agencies on July 14 on how to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order from March declaring English the nation’s official ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Twenty immigrants from seventeen countries are pictured ...

English learners’ average English-language proficiency scores have remained in decline since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new assessment data from the WIDA consortium. The WIDA ...

About one quarter of Australian school students are learning English as an additional language or dialect. This means their first language or dialect is something other than English and they need ...

In 2023, about 85% of the roughly five million articles indexed in major global databases covering the natural, medical and social sciences were written in English. In 1990, the proportion was ...

The University of Cyprus has submitted proposals for four new English-language undergraduate degrees to the education ministry, following the launch of its first foreign-language bachelor’s programme ...