I was recently browsing (I’ll tell you why some other time) in my long-neglected copy of The Basis and Essentials of German by Charles Duff and Richard Freund (Thomas Nelson, London, third edition ...

The acquisition of vocabulary in a second language is a multifaceted process, encompassing both explicit instruction and incidental learning. Contemporary research highlights the importance of digital ...

The way in which you put sentences together really changes the meaning and how clear and good your writing or speaking is.

William of Normandy's conquest in 1066 changed England and its language. The Anglo-Saxon King Harold lost, deeply affecting language evolution. French influenced English significantly. Around 40% of ...

Language is one of the most distinctive features of the human species. There are good reasons to believe it is a uniquely human capacity that no other organism has (Berwick and Chomsky, 2016). Unlike ...

In recent years, there has been growing concern about the “vocabulary gap” widening between children from different socioeconomic groups. By age 3, it is believed that children growing up in poor ...