Why do our spellings not match our pronunciations? Why are so many words just really weird? Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson ...

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, ...

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, English learners’ average English-language proficiency test ...

An online master’s degree in English language learning (ELL) can provide significant professional development for educators who work closely with English language learners and multilingual students.

Tatsuya Amano knows how daunting it is to be surrounded by people speaking a foreign language in your workplace. The conservation scientist left his native Japan in 2011 to work in the UK and then ...

From AI-powered interviews to adaptive testing, English proficiency exams are moving beyond rote evaluation to focus on ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country’s woeful inability to learn languages has been raised as a key stumbling ...