English, Jack

The summer issue is now available here . Check it out.

The newest issue of TESL Ontario's Contact  magazine is now available . This is the research symposium issue, based on talks given each ...

A student wrote to me asking about the meaning and placement of then  in this sentence. The product is then designed with this target pric...

I'm now into my second year as editor of TESL Ontario's  Contact  magazine . You can download issues for free as far back as 2000. I...

Last year, I blogged about the first English Proficiency Index here . Education First has now released their second index , and they're ...

Another new and potentially useful site: Extensive Reading Central is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing an Extensi...

Tutela has been in beta for about a year but had its official launch during the TESL Canada conference. From their terms of use: Tutela.ca...

As I wrote yesterday , there are some strange tagging decisions concerning determinatives in this corpus. It seems though, as I added in an...

Somehow I missed the announcement, but the 2012 LLL Award Winners for books published in 2011 have been announced .

As Ben Zimmer blogged yesterday , there's a new and improved version of the Google Ngram viewer . The "improved" bit has a num...

After 20 years of teaching English, I've only recently become consciously aware that my students may be applying the complementation pat...

This morning, CBC Toronto's Metro Morning program was being broadcast remotely from the new arts and culture hub of Regent Park. Shortl...

In the new issue of TESOL Journal  is an article by Fatima Alali and Norbert Schmitt that discusses teaching idioms. "Because many i...

Mark Davies, over at Brigham Young University, has developed some fantastic corpus-based resources. His most recent project, along with Dee ...

I have often been critical of the "Grammatically Speaking" columns put out occasionally by TESOL, but the most recent is, I thin...

It's rare to find a study looking at overall program effectiveness. But Citizenship and Immigration Canada has conducted just such a st...

The Extensive Reading Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2012 Language Learner Literature awards. They are reproduced below t...

If you are reasonably familiar with stuff like martial arts and flower arrangement, you may have heard about the three stages of mastering t...

For years, my students wrote their assignments on paper with a pen or pencil. These days, I ask that almost everything be submitted electron...

On this package of "skin guard" instant crazy glue, there is copy explaining that it features "delayed adhesion to skin....