‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

Making English a compulsory subject from grade 1 is undeniably the right direction, but as a parent, the policy still brings ...

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 ...

When it comes to teaching languages, the grammar-translation method has become the child nobody loves or wants to acknowledge. But is it really hell on toast? No, it ain’t. There, I said it. Leave it ...

Many students are returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence ...

Grammar schools are one of those subjects - they’re either loved or hated. The introduction of the grammar school has split British opinion since their introduction in the 16th century. Some see them ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Grammar experts say English teachers will struggle to teach the subject when a new curriculum is rolled out in schools next year unless ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...