No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...
Common English Grammar Mistakes: English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to grammar. From confusing “its” and “it’s” to ...
(This the final post in a six-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, Part Three here, Part Four here, and Part Five here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are some of the most ...
According to the Oxford Dictionary (and anyone who has ever studied English as a second language), spelling is hard. And misspellings are not only common, but also awkward in professional contexts.
Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. The conservation scientist left his native Japan in 2011 to work in the UK and then ...
Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.
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FOR MOST of its life, the European Union had three main languages. German was its leading mother tongue. French was the preferred register of Brussels diplomacy. English was a widely used second ...
Not "work." Not "home." It's way, way bigger than that. Imagine someone downloaded all the words on the Internet—every email, every Facebook update, every ebook, scientific report, magazine article, ...