👏 Theresa Austin was elected Chair of the Language Ambassadors for the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) at the NABE 2026 Annual Conference in Chicago!
🔗 Learn more about the session: buff.ly/7MaW2fa
#UMassEDUC #MultilingualEducation #LanguageAdvocacy #NABE
Advocacy is for everyone—parents, educators, students, community leaders & friends. Join us in sustaining & growing language programs through ACTFL’s #LanguageAdvocacy Resource Center: actfl.org/LARC
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From the American Translators Association. Things to know about Language Access: It affects limited-English-proficient (LEP) individuals. Learn facts about LEPs on the following image. Six of the nation’s leading professional T&I organizations issued a joint statement opposing Executive Order 14224, which designates English as the official language of the U.S. Voice your support for language access provisions by contacting your representatives and ensuring that the LEPs you interact with are aware of their language access rights!
Fact 1: 25.7 million (8%) of U.S. residents are LEP. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017) They may speak conversational English but struggle to understand or express themselves in complex situations like testifying in court or receiving a medical diagnosis. Fact 2: 68 million (20%) use a language other than English at home. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019) They may speak English but it is not the primary language of their home and family. Fact 3: 350 languages are spoken and signed in American homes today. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015) This linguistic diversity reflects the nation’s immigrant heritage and multicultural composition since its founding.
Ensuring language access for limited-English-proficient (LEP) individuals is a key part of ATA’s mission. Voice your support for language access by contacting your reps and ensuring LEPs you know are aware of their #LanguageAccess rights!
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#LanguageAdvocacy #xl8 #1nt #atanet
Mother Language Day 2025 #Celebration and #Advocacy linktr.ee/lupatalks #motherlanguageday #language #learning #languageadvocacy
JNCL-NCLIS Releases New Survey Findings Highlighting Challenges and Innovations in U.S. Higher Education Language Programs - To download a copy of the report, please visit bit.ly/JNCLReportIHE. #languageadvocacy #actfl24
Today at the #ACTFL24 Assembly of Delegates, JNCL-NCLIS Exec. Director Amanda Seewald & Gov. Relations Director Jon Bernstein shared legislative updates & findings from our higher ed language education survey.
Join us in March in Washington, DC, for #LAD25
#languageadvocacy! #actfl24
Fr NCLG &JNCL-NCLIS: #worldlanguage teachers! Contact your congressional representatives! Ask them to support #WorldLEAP Grant bill HR5603.These grants can support ALL LANGUAGES in public schools & have blockbuster positive effects-such grants missing for 14yrs! #languageadvocacy matters!#latinteach
