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, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

Raise your hand if you liked sentence diagramming in school. Is your hand raised? If so: Really? Ew. For normal-ish people, diagramming, if not always a fun exercise, is one of many tools to help ...

Podcasts, interviews, news channels and movies help you hear natural grammar usage. Listening improves your instinct for what ...

Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle schoolers.

Brett Healey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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 ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

Erica Bexley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...