As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

Nearly 3 in 4 American classrooms now includes at least one English-language learner, and these students make up roughly 1 in 10 public school students. While their numbers continue to rise quickly, ...

Students earning a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) must complete two-semesters of a language other than English. Languages available include: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish in the ...

The roots of African American English date to the original Thirteen Colonies established in the 17th century, and have since grown to shape language across the United States. Yet, outside a few fields ...

This post was written by Melissa Wheeler, Ph.D., and Nick Haslam, Ph.D. Source: Photo by Pixabay from Pexels The content of psychology writing is constantly evolving. New theories and methodologies ...

Christa van der Walt has received funding for a variety of research projects from the NRF and the Von Humboldt Foundation. In most cases, South African children are taught in their home language for ...