About 1 out of every 10 public school students in the United States right now is learning to speak English. They're called ELLs, for "English Language Learners." There are nearly 5 million of them, ...

THE image of the Briton abroad, speaking English slowly and loudly in the expectation that eventually the natives will get the idea, is a stereotype with a good deal of truth behind it. According to a ...

English has become the language of international communication. Our English courses and certificates are designed for students preparing for studies in the United States, professionals working in ...

Natural languages comprise elaborate systems of rules that enable one speaker to communicate with another 7. These rules serve to simplify the production of language and enable an infinite array of ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

In my previous post, Is Language An Instinct? I introduced some of the myths I contend are associated with what I termed ‘rationalist linguistics’—a particular world-view in language and cognitive ...

Though difficult to fathom, just 1,500 years ago, English was a wisp of a language, spoken by a smattering of Germanic tribes as they migrated from mainland Europe to the island of Britain. Today, ...

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English murder. German Hund (dog) is a dead ringer for hound. Czech ...

According to the draft project, English as a second language in Vietnamese schools means that English will be taught in schools where the official language is Vietnamese, and English will be widely ...

Free platform adds 500+ Spanish videos covering science, geography, history and more – joining 3,500 English educational videos for children LearningMole lets children discover the world in multiple ...