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The ML Chat: Conversations with Multilingual Educators podcast recently featured interviews with members of CAL's...

Amy Burden's book "Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity in English Language Learning Texts" offers a...

The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) urges West Virginia University (WVU) to preserve its Department...

Keira BallantyneMap credit: Jessica Debski What laws protect voting access for multilingual voters? The United...

In this opinion piece, Tim Boals, WIDA founder and director, gives his perspective on what...

If testing (rather than assessment) continues to prevail as what ‘counts’, and schools measure multilingual...

The return to in-person learning at school has prompted the renewal of many pre-pandemic practices,...

Lisa Tabaku, Director of Global Languages and Culture at the Center for Applied Linguistics, spoke...

Does the presence of multimodalities confound comprehension of text in testing situations, especially for multilingual...

"Schools confuse the assessment of general linguistic proficiency, which is best manifested in bilinguals while...

Do translations and transadaptations of tests into languages other than English serve as equity tools...

Is it equitable to have the same grading policy for all students, including multilingual learners?...

Do you consider it counterintuitive to assess in multiple languages when accountability rests in English?...

In addition to students' own literacy practices, these storytelling activities can also be key teaching...

Why the change from cross-cultural understanding to sociocultural competence? Why not have a separate strand...

Thorough preparation is a critical first step in developing lessons that are both accessible and...

After nearly a year of facilitating online professional development for educators across the U.S., Canada,...

There is an ideological war of words waging in America. The Power of Narrative: Climate...