4/19/2010

netTrekker and Nelson Education Help Canadian Schools Transition to Digital Resources

 Features include Read Aloud support for struggling learners and special needs students, customized content for English Language Learners, including a dictionary/translation Hot Key.

Michelle Obama Picture eBook for Children Now Available as iPhone App

It is narrated and written in three languages: English, Spanish and Chinese.

Babbel Introduces New Features

Three key features designed to make learning foreign languages easier. 

4/16/2010

Ginger Software Announces New Features

Contextual correction tool is designed especially for students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, and ELLs.

Merriam-Webster Signs Agreement to Provide Digital Files with Worldwide Rights to Bookshare

4/15/2010

Middlebury College and K12 Inc. To Create Online Language Learning Business and Expand Language Academies

Language faculty from Middlebury will work with K12 on the academic content of Web-based language courses, which K12 will offer through its online education programs.

4/13/2010

Teach N' Kids Learn Announces Partnership with Formacion Digital, S.L.



Partnership seeks to offer online professional development in English and Spanish to professionals in the education field

4/12/2010

British Accent iPhone App Released

Alison Pitman Voiceover Services and software developers Zepho Inc. team up to launch British Accent training app.

Improve English Grammar Skills with Free Online Training

Irish-based online skills training provider ALISON Launches 'English Grammar Rules'.

Scholastic Reports Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010

Language School in Korea Guilty of Bilking Funds

Daewon Foreign Language High School collected around 2.13 billion won ($1.9 million) in illegal funds from parents of their students. 

Hello-Hello Launches Language Course App for the iPad

Hello-Hello Spanish includes 30 conversational lessons and hundreds of flashcards with words and sentences to practice vocabulary. 

Reading Horizons Releases Reading Intervention Program

Methodology used is effective in teaching ELLs how to read. 

David Nunan Institute for Language Education Establishes Travel Grants

Applicants must be in a university Ph.D. program in TESOL / Applied Linguistics or a related field, or be early career researchers, who have graduated within the last three years.

Malawi: Local Language Dictionary Released

TV5Monde Launches French Teaching App

Solution Tree Announces Exclusive Distribution Partnership with Nelson Education

New Publisher of Online Thai Language Books & Ebooks Opens