English continues to dominate global communication. It is the primary language for international business, science, higher ...

Students acquiring the English language are one of the fastest growing populations of K-12 public school students in the country. Legally, districts are required to provide them with adequate ...

Rosemary Salomone, a linguist and a lawyer, is a professor of law at St. John’s University in New York. Her most recent book is The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. Back in ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

Discussions of the “digital divide” often touch on race and ethnicity – and the narrative is often that whites lead in technology adoption while other racial or ethnic groups struggle to keep up. But ...

Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home. It makes for a great story: when settlers moved from ...

Move over, "antidisestablishmentarianism." The longest word in English will leave you speechless. If you don’t think this monstrous moniker should be considered a real English word, you’d find some ...

Javier Fossas asked me, "Do you speak Spanish?" It's complicated. I do, but I'm really insecure about my Spanish. I grew up in California in a Puerto Rican family where English was the dominant ...

A black man on the phone from a jail in San Francisco said, in 2015, “He come tell ’bout I’m gonna take the TV,” which meant that this man was not going to do so. The transcriber listening in couldn’t ...