English, Jack

Earlier this month, I spent about a week in France. It was a very pleasant stay, even with my rather limited French. Because - well, I’ll sh...

I've just been given the editorship at TESL Ontario's Contact Magazine . So now the grovelling begins: send me your articles, please...

Although there is a good deal of debate surrounding how teachers should respond to student writing, my sense of the orthodox position is tha...

October 16th is dictionary day in celebration of the birthday of Noah Webster , he of the famous American English dictionary . But you can ...

In a bulletin posted yesterday, the Canadian Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration gave "notice requesting comments on a proposal to...

I've got a new "Grammarology 2.0" column up over at the TESL Toronto blog. This time , I try to help out a correspondent after...

Yesterday, I mentioned on Google+ that my grade-five son has a piece about horsehair worms coming out in the spring issue of Kiddo Magazine ...

Over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative , Stephen Gordon has been bemoaning the fact that current economics students don't know much abo...

The NYT's blog `The Learning Network' is looking at words that are both noun and verb. Overview   | In this lesson, students pl...

I was watching a presentation last night, part of which was musing about the feeling that no new music genre had appeared for quite some tim...

From  Zoran Nesic   through Google+. These lectures could potentially eat up a lot of my marking time.

My first real Grammarology 2.0  column is up on TESL Toronto's website. As promised in the introduction , it's another look at what...

I've started a new column for TESL Toronto which will run roughly twice a month. In it, I’ll tackle grammar questions from two viewpoint...

You've seen my TED talk  using the Google ngram viewer , and now here's another , this time by the authors of the  culturomics paper...

In the Sept 3-9th edition of  New Scientist , James Pennebaker discusses the individual variations in frequency with which we use pronouns ...

This video is actually posted on the website of the company hawking this "service". Incredibly, they're charging people to put...

The first extensive reading world congress that wrapped up last weekend in Kyoto was, from all reports, a great success despite the typhoon....

In the New York Times Sunday book review, Steven Pinker reviews Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister ...

Here's the press release: The Survey of English Usage at UCL is very pleased to announce the publication of a new App for Apple hand-h...