Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do you know what a suffix is, or how to distinguish adjectives from adverbs? If you have a six or seven-year-old, the chances are ...

The bilingual sentence-wise translation in learning English tenses always remains elusive for the students of English as a second language. I frequently quote sentences to expose the incompatibility ...

Critics claim there is too much focus on grammar in schools – but these linguists argue that teaching grammatical terms has huge benefits for learning According to Dominic Wyse, a professor in early ...

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 ...

Today we have a special guest. Betty Azar is the most successful writer of grammar textbooks in the world. Generations of English learners will recognize her best-selling book Understanding and Using ...

ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...

The way that grammar is taught in schools reveals “a significant and persistent mismatch” between government policy and academic evidence showing what works, according to a research paper. Dominic ...

Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the ...

HighlightsGrammar-centered learning of classical Japanese, known as the philological approach, has long been criticized as a ...