English, Jack

Cornelia Dean, writing in the New York Times today included the following statement in an article about a creationist book "In fact, ...

Like most people, English teachers can find it tedious to address the same basic grammar points and vocabulary items week after week. It...

The Extensive Reading Foundation 's Language Learner Literature Awards (previously mentioned here ) will be announced August 31. Readers...

In a NewScientist interview , linguist Annie Mollard-Desfour claims that, to a Japanese person, the brightness of a colour is more importa...

One of the arguments that came up yesterday was that idioms are simply not reflected in the frequency counts because the corpora don't...

Language teachers are overly enamoured of idioms. My pointing out, over on the TESL-L list, that a series of "common gambling idioms...

$980 : funding that schools in Ontario received per ESL student in 2004/2005 $245 : average personal spending on English-language tutors in ...

The Ridger FCDE at The Greenbelt has tagged English, Jack in an internet meme . Here's a recent history of this particular one: The Gre...

A recent survey in Utah seems to explain why so many Americans think that immigrants aren't trying to learn English reports The Salt La...

Over at the Simple English Wiktionary , we're trying to reach the goal of having 2,000 entries by August 4th. We won't interrupt reg...

Over at Language Log, Mark Liberman has spent a good deal of time addressing the baseless claims in Louann Brizendine's book and her su...

Kahori Sakane has an article in the Daily Yomiuri about schools giving students Nintendo DS handheld game consoles with specially designed...

From time to time it is useful to have a detailed look at the kind of errors that learners of English make. The International Corpus of Lear...

English-language teachers in Ontario Colleges (and elsewhere) are disproportionately non-full time workers. In our EAP department, for insta...

Today marks one week since Simon Li's last day as Friday host of CBC's "The Current". You can read and listen to parts of ...

It appears that to get a teachers license in New South Wales, you will need to study grammar. Do you suppose that Rodney Huddleston , being...

While I won't spend more time dwelling on the numerical problems that I brought up in my previous comment on Brown's lexicon articl...

Mark Davies has a new free online interface. The following blurb is from the site : "This website allows you to quickly and easily sear...

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Ian Brown, writing in Saturday's Globe & Mail, takes a hell-in-a-handbasket tour of society's love-hate relationship with vocabu...