What the teacher needs is a new approach, according to two local educators promoting an alternative way of teaching grammar . “I would say, ‘We’re in school right now. We’re speaking formal English.

They have 129 years combined of experience in teaching foreign languages: Irene Konyndyk in French, German and Dutch; Larry Herzberg in Chinese and Japanese; David Smith in French, German and Russian; ...

Living in the age of Twitter is no excuse for bad grammar. So says the "Grammar Goddess," Coon Rapids High School teacher Stephanie Tutt, who believes it's possible to maintain classic standards in an ...

In line with this, researchers have investigated language learning in late adulthood and shown that there is no age limit to ...

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.

A critical survey of different approaches and methods used to develop language skills. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth ...

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England's national curriculum) does not appear to help children's narrative writing, although it may help them generate ...

Plans for new primary school grammar tests in England will hold a "gun to the head" of teachers, experts say. The National Association for the Teaching of English says a revised focus on spelling, ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...

Aboriginal language teachers in the Yukon will soon have a new tool to teach kids First Nation languages. The Council of Yukon First Nations held workshops in Whitehorse this week, explaining the ...