Teaching grade-level content to students who have just arrived in the United States and whose English skills are limited is a difficult task. High school-level content specialists especially have ...

Forty-two years of teaching our students how to construct sentences and the pat on the back is a pair of accusations by a nameless Port Washington School District administrator. Yet, Robert Joseph, a ...

In my column last week on how the English double possessive works, I clarified this baffling usage that linguists call the "double genitive." This time I'd like to make a similar alert on another ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...