"Fr", "IJBOL", "it's giving" are just some of the internet slang that university lecturer Kennedy Albar hears increasingly often in his classroom, but the use of such words is not necessarily bad. He ...

In case you haven’t noticed, the Irish language is having a moment. Once the dull, outdated, compulsory school subject that made us want to téigh a chodladh, being ag caint as Gaeilge is what all the ...

It is a known fact that the process of learning is a step-by-step procedure. For instance, before a student becomes ...

TOKYO -- Introducing children to not just English but other languages from a young age might help them grow into internationally minded adults. After ･･･ ...

The People’s Liberation Army has been urged to overhaul English language teaching at its military schools and recruit professionals to improve soldiers’ communication skills on the international stage ...

If you’re teaching English online, pronunciation is crucial! Teach it wrong, and you might teach a completely different word. It’s easy to check before filming—if I can do it as a native teacher with ...

Despite the acknowledged significance of intelligible pronunciation for successful verbal communication (Levis, 2018), it remains one of the marginal skills, compared to grammar and vocabulary, in ...

The 16th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) Conference is an annual meeting devoted to the research and teaching of second or additional languages. The conference, which is ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. In the agricultural regions of California’s San Joaquin Valley, schools like Firebaugh Middle School are ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the author will explore the dilemma of phonetics teaching courses in English-related majors in domestic colleges and universities from a psycholinguistic point of view. This ...