A Georgia State researcher found that spelling-focused interventions improved overall literacy skills, including for students ...

The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows. The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in ...

Most days we made lame jokes and tried to outscore one another with one-liners about the moldy walls, the dead roaches in the light fixtures, the windows held together with bookbinding tape, the rats ...

Of all the skills I teach my high school students, I’ve always thought writing was the most important — essential to their future academic success, useful in any profession. I’m no longer so sure.

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. In my previous post, I told the story of two Russian spies who became indistinguishable from native speakers of their second languages and identified two factors that ...

Clare Cunningham has previously received funding from the British Council. More than 20% of all primary school and 16% of secondary school children in the UK speak languages other than English. And ...

This research compares how second language learners process two types of written feedback: reformulation and direct correction. On a two-stage composition-and-comparison task, 22 adult learners of ...