Focusing on the life of Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, this is a superbly written effort to capture the power ...

My favorite grammar lesson, by far, was the day I nailed down prepositions for my sixth-graders by standing in a trash can.

Emily Cushion argues that we must foreground the Arts, even if those branches lead to uncertain ends ...

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock Choose three to five works of art or culture to ...

Speaking a non-native language with a native speaker can be a nerve-wracking experience as you struggle to piece together the ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom ... Mothers' Language Choices ...

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

T he classroom of Kirsten Morgan, a St. Michael Catholic School language arts teacher, looks a bit like a fitness club. Students bounce, rock, sway and roll on various ball chairs, teetering ...

Hundreds of new words are added to the English language every year. A word, phrase or sentence that is the same both backwards and forwards is called a palindrome. Grammar is the system for ...

What makes our curriculum unique is the expert instruction we offer in the language itself, training students to excel in beginners’ through advanced learners’ levels of linguistic fluency. Our highly ...

If you're roaming around Europe, there's one major pitfall Rick Steves warns against, and odds are, you might be falling into ...