ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

This story is part of a short series on innovative ways teachers are rethinking the traditional lesson plan. What’s one that resonated with you or the student in your life? Tell us about it: [email ...

Many students are confused about grammar and sentence structure – so should universities teach it explicitly? Words image from www.shutterstock.com Imagine a student turning up at university and not ...

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, claimed that in today's technologically-advanced world that there was no place for ...

Good grammar lessons help children become better writers, and you don’t need to know what a fronted adverbial is to help One unanticipated consequence of school closures and remote learning has been a ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Grammar experts say English teachers will struggle to teach the subject when a new curriculum is ...

About three months ago, a colleague told me that she just spent two hours teaching students the different usages of the English word "as." I then asked her if she thought, after her dedicated efforts, ...