'Atesi' -- what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning 'thought'. Scientists have used Vimmish, an artificial language specifically ...

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Words. Schools are swimming in them. Children are swimming in them too, and potentially drowning in them. A recent Education Week article discussed the need for students to “learn more words,” stating ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

David A. Wilkins wrote, “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” Learning new vocabulary is essential for success in English for academic purposes ...

Second language learners are typically hampered by the lack of a natural environment to use the target language for authentic communication purpose (as a means for 'learning by applying'). Thus, we ...

Join us in this amusing and insightful video where a British headmaster takes on the challenge of deciphering the complex ...