Barry Alex Finsel portrayed a department that was geared to help the most vulnerable students, that has a curriculum representing a diverse body of students, and that focuses on individual students ...
Language experts agree that no single English language rule exists for terms like "farmers market," "couple's retreat" or ...
The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...
Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...
New research from Cornell University and Aarhus University suggests that language may rely less on complex, tree‑like grammatical structures and more on simple, linear patterns of words that can be ...
The five patterns illustrated below provide the basis for all other sentence structures: that is, other kinds of sentences are transformations of these basic patterns. Though the above sentences are ...
Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...
Most educators are familiar with the saying “All teachers are teachers of language.” Although we wholeheartedly agree, we know that not all teachers have been taught to be language teachers. Unless ...
Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...