John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...
In 1998, voters in California passed Proposition 227, which effectively abolished bilingual instruction in public schools. But since then a series of studies have shown that good bilingual programs ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Imagine inflicting the following stunt on a class of eight-year-olds. As part of their English education, you want them to expand their ...
Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Do you know what a suffix ...
Besides grammar and speaking, business communication must include writing. As I've written previously, "Rather than just learning about grammar or words, ESL students must actually use the language to ...
when teaching the present tense for example. Best just to stick with one of those types of verbs. Can you see if you can write out the sentence again, in French underneath on your sheets? So we'd ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A recent report into Australia’s NAPLAN results showed that in 2019 close to a quarter of boys and 10 per cent of girls in year 9 were ...
A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to become better ...