Bas Aarts, Professor of English Linguistics at University College London, said that new tests introduced by Education Secretary Michael Gove for pupils up to the age of 14 demanded a greater knowledge ...
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, ...
In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English, an organization that certainly did not foresee a future of blogs, social media, hot takes and hastily dashed-off tweets, emails and texts, issued ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Imagine inflicting the following stunt on a class of eight-year-olds. As part of their English education, you want them to expand their ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a ...
People make mistakes in articles all the time. It is one of the most difficult topics in English grammar! But don't panic! I ...