Acquiring the ability to speak fluent English has been a decades-long pursuit for many Japanese toiling to master the dominant language of the world. As English tightens its grip as a lingua franca in ...

I’m Mr Smith and today we’re going to practise how to use standard and non-standard English. These greetings all convey a similar message: Hello. However, some of these phrases include standard ...

TEACHING ENGLISH as a first language is not easy—many youngsters leave school feeling they never quite mastered its finer points. Recently some commentators have been wondering whether the standard ...