EditorialAn ad promoting visas and work permits for young men who want to emigrate, in the Indian state of Punjab on March 23, 2023. (Priyadarshini Ravichandran/The New York Times)
EditorialT.A. Dugger Junior High School in Elizabethton, Tenn., where increased funding allowed the district to provide English language arts tutoring this year for 404 elementary and middle school students, May 4, 2023. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialT.A. Dugger Junior High School in Elizabethton, Tenn., where increased funding allowed the district to provide English language arts tutoring this year for 404 elementary and middle school students, May 4, 2023. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialT.A. Dugger Junior High School in Elizabethton, Tenn., where increased funding allowed the district to provide English language arts tutoring this year for 404 elementary and middle school students, May 4, 2023. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialA lesson at Autism Partnership, a center for young children with autism in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 24, 2022. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA classroom at Autism Partnership Korea, a center for young children with autism in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 24, 2022. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialDaisy Gibbons, a specialist in Ukrainian literature who has seen a sudden influx of translation requests, in London, March 6, 2022. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
EditorialSuzanne Szwarcewicz, an English language learning teacher in Newton, Mass.,?says masks have presented challenges for young native speakers of other languages. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialAude Le Dubé poses for a portrait at her English-language bookstore, De Stiil, in Plateau-Mont-Royal, a multicultural neighborhood with a large Francophone population in Montreal, Canada, on Aug. 3, 2021. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
EditorialTiago Rodrigues on stage at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, the theater he has led for six years, in Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 22, 2021. (Ana Brigida/The New York Times)
EditorialA Palestinian English language teacher, Louay Sheikh Eid, dressed as a clown while teaching school students, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip, Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 04 Oct 2021
EditorialA movement is growing in China against the English language and against Western influence in general in what many Chinese people see as another step away from openness to the world. (Jialun Deng/The New York Times)
EditorialA movement is growing in China against the English language and against Western influence in general in what many Chinese people see as another step away from openness to the world. (Jialun Deng/The New York Times)
EditorialThe actress Barbara Windsor, left, and the writer Alexander Waugh announce the 2011 Bad Sex in Fiction winner, David Guterson, at the In and Out Club in London, Dec. 6, 2011. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)