English, Jack

The semicolon has an interesting history, which is traced rather well by Paul Collins in his 2008 Slate article . I thought I'd go back...

The New York Times Magazine has a fascinating article  by Joshua Foer on memory training. It documents how he went from a reporter looking ...

If you are reading this, then you may be interested in Deborah Schaffer's article that appeared in a recent issue of English Today , ent...

In one of my earliest posts , I discusses how the fine work of Endel Tulving has been misunderstood by many in ESL, leading to vocabulary l...

David Paul has done, perhaps, more than other single person in the last decade else to support English teachers and English teaching in Japa...

Toyota is asking what the plural of Prius is, and they've got a catchy video to go along with the question:

Returning to Leo Schmitt's most recent Grammatically Speaking column , I'd like to take up the issue of when a past participle becom...

The following is a guest post from Leo Schmitt, the new Grammatically Speaking columnist whose column I complained about here . ----------...

In today's Retail , Val nicely explain's Grice's cooperative principle .

Grammatically speaking is dead. If only... Back in September, it was announced that Richard Firsten would stop publishing his monthly colu...

Ever heard of the ' Bad Writing Contest '? If you haven't, take a look. It really is wonderfully amusing and amazing. We are acc...

Google advanced search now has a reading-level feature which groups search results in to basic, medium, and advanced reading levels. Accordi...

Hugh and Al Graham-Marr are friends from my Japan days who started up a publishing company called Abax. This year, they published  Fiction I...

My six-year-old daughter told us at dinner the other day that her teacher generally allows her class certain privileges "if we be good....

A correspondent writes, "What's up?" and " Not much?" come from African-American hoods... Teaching such phrases to ...

Mariola O'Brien, one of my students from a few years back, was written up in the Toronto Star recently. The article doesn't seem to...

Carol Goar in yesterday's Toronto Star highlights a series of books for adult literacy learners. The series is published by Grass Root...

The international language teaching association TESOL has adopted a position which basically says, if you're going to fund an English ...

In the second half of Jan Freeman's most recent "The word", she takes on the question of whether we will be shifting to dayli...

Lori Habermehl, a colleague here in the English Language Centre at Humber, pointed out to me an exception to the textbook descriptions of th...