English, Jack

Up until now, there have only been two thesauri (or thesauruses if you prefer) for learners of English: The Longman Language Activator and...

English Teachers in Japan is a mostly eponymous group (I say mostly because there are some members like me who aren't in Japan) that run...

Trading places with your students is good experience for any language teacher. A good long trade really is the best: the kind where you go a...

For some time there was a fair bit of debate over at en.wiktionary about whether to list words such as all, most, every, this, etc. as adje...

A while ago, Tom Merner wrote , "The implementation of mandatory English in the 5th and 6th grades of elementary schools in Japan is ju...

Said is most commonly the past tense of say , but as a past participle, it became used in legal writing to refer to something that was ment...

My own sense of podcast as a verb matches that of Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English Main Entry: podcast Part of Speec...

Via The Onion April 25, 2008 | Issue 44•17 WASHINGTON—In the midst of a crisis...

Rodney Huddleston pointed out to me that I hadn't included post as a preposition in the Simple English Wiktionary. (I have since added ...

If the Ontario government is indeed earnest about wanting to "help internationally trained professionals work int heir fields of exper...

Here in Ontario, it has been illegal for part-time college teachers to unionize. A ruling in BC last year made it clear that that would have...

I do hope that this sounds the death knell for the pointless proscription of singular they . The Canadian Department of Justice actually rec...

By Craig Brown Last Updated: 12:01am BST 12/04/2008 Sir - Listening to people on television being interviewed, I find to my horror that the...

"Every year, the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English. From books publi...

If you've been having trouble accessing Language Log, you're not the only one. [addition: Back up Old LL here , New LL here .] Check...

Last summer when my wife was taking courses and I was taking care of the kids, M. & T. and I would go down to Chapters and spend a few h...

Provided without comment: "A new important site: Learning you English Language, It learning you everything about spoken English special...

A few days ago I disagreed with Richard Firsten's analysis of the construction "for us teachers". Where he said us is a pron...

The following question and reply (by Barbara Wallraff) were published in the Detroit Free Press. David Tobin of Houston writes: "You...

on 19-mar-08, at 6:13 AM, jennifer tamura wrote: "Would someone be kind enough to give a reasonable explanation as to why we say, for e...