This fall, I am not only teaching in Paris but temporarily directing a program of study abroad. Among the many other changes this shift has produced in my daily life, I find myself no longer on the ...

Grammar Laboratory, a new tool developed by an ASL instructor at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical ...

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

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.

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There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become ...

In May, I asked how teachers can address frequent student grammatical mistakes. The response to that post generated a number of great suggestions. But no response went so far as musician-comedian ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

The classroom at the Defense Language Institute smelled faintly of coffee and paper. Students shuffled in, some scrolling through notes, others whispering to themselves about tricky grammar exercises.

Children's ability to understand basic grammar early in language development has long puzzled scientists, creating a debate over whether that skill is innate or learned with time and practice. A new ...