Bilingually Enriched Learners

English professor Anne Curzan makes an unusual request of her students at the University of Michigan — she asks students to teach her two new slang words. While some might cringe at the use of YOLO or hangry in an academic setting, Curzan, who is also a language historian, appreciates the creativity in the words that make their way into the vernacular, and ultimately, the dictionary.

In this TED video, she explains the role of dictionary editors and how they view language, including slang:

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Not all English nouns can be made plural by adding an -s or -es to the end of the word. Check out this chart for some irregular plural nouns! What other irregular plural English nouns do you know?

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Most experts agree that the best way to learn a language is by immersing yourself in it.Now, with  more sophisticated technology, another theory around language learning is being tested: the use of avatars to practice speaking.

Alongside traditional methods, like listening, repeating, and digital flashcards, created by companies like Rosetta Stone,  Livemocha, and AccelaStudy, a few tech companies have leveraged the idea that becoming someone else helps to learn a foreign language, especially when speaking it.

Larry posted earlier this week (see Duolingo Takes Next Step To Conquer Language Learning World & Lets Teachers Create Virtual Classrooms), the super-popular Duolingo language-learning app unveiled its free Duolingo For Schools feature today.

By Krystian Aparta They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn't mean that adults should give up. We asked some of the polyglots in TED’s Open Translation Project to share their...

As the number of English-language learners grows, teachers must focus on the most essential content and most efficient delivery of instruction.

Clear explanations about how to use the present simple tense (or simple present) in English

In an effort to make the English language learning process easier and faster for international ESL students, we’ve asked some of the best and most active English as a Second Language teachers and bloggers out there to answer three questions about learning languages. Many of the experts that we contacted were happy to share their advice and teaching experience to help language students avoid very common and easily avoidable pitfalls of learning a new language.

Also, our team did deep research online to find some of the best resources to help you learn the English language more easily.

The online resources section, located after the expert Q&As, includes free resources for English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling exercises, great resources on reading and writing in English, a list of websites that have collections of English slang and idioms, ESL practice worksheets, ESL podcasts, and ESL YouTube channels. Enjoy!

Today's infographic focuses on the popular grammar point of adverbs of frequency. It is split into two parts. Firstly, it focuses on the common teaching point of ‘indefinite time’ adverbs such as often, always and rarely. The second focus is on the much less taught, but equally important ‘definite time’ adverbs like annually, daily and monthly.