Etymology is the study of the history of words. It tells us when words entered a language, where they came from and how they have changed over time. Basically etymology explains what our words used to mean and how they sounded in the past. As an example take a look […]
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TESL stands for Teaching English as a Second Language. It’s pronounced TESL to rhyme with WRESTLE. Simply put, this means teaching English to people who are not native English speakers but who live in a country where English is the main language. For example, teaching English to Chinese speaking immigrants […]
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A Syllable is a unit of spoken language which typically consists of a vowel, optionally with a consonant before and/or after it. The number of letters in a syllable is not important as it is the sound of the syllable which matters. One way to think of syllables is as […]
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Professor emeritus at the University of Southern California. Krashen is a linguist, an educational researcher, and an activist. Krashen has contributed to the fields of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Bilingual Education, and Reading. He is credited with introducing various influential concepts and terms in the study of second language acquisition, […]
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¿Hablas español? About 470 million people do! In fact Spanish is the second most popular first language in the world (after Mandarin; English is third) and also the third most popular language on the internet (after English then Mandarin). As a first language it is mainly spoken in Spain, Latin […]
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