An English teacher in Florida has been suspended after giving their 8th grade class (13-15 years old) explicit lyrics to analyze. The students were having problems understanding concepts such as puns, similes, and metaphors so rather than continue using more traditional material to explain them, the teacher brought in the […]
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, […]
An English Grammar – as a countable noun – is a book which explains the grammar of the English language. Compare this to grammar – as a non-countable noun – which is the set of rules which explain how language is used. Thus we can say a grammar is full […]
Grammar books can generally be divided into two different types: Descriptive or Prescriptive. This article looks at the difference between them. Very simply, a descriptive grammar looks at what people actually say in real life and then lays out a series of statements describing what is said. With modern technology […]
When you teach English as a foreign language you don’t just teach “English”. No, you teach a specific type of English depending on your class: different people need different English. You can view this in the same way as dance. If you go to a dance class you don’t just […]