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The comma has many uses. The first, and perhaps most common, use of commas is to show a pause. However, in many kinds of modern writing, the comma serves a different purpose: to show what is different and what belongs together.
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Many English learners work hard to improve their pronunciation skills. If you are not making as much progress as you'd hoped, you are not alone. You may be surprised to know that a number of teachers do not know how to effectively teach this skill.
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Get the classroom practice and essential skills to start teaching English with CELTA, the TEFL qualification that employers around the world ask for.
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A free online Talking English Pronunciation Dictionary - simply mouseover/tap your entry to hear it pronounced. American and British spellings, with alternative pronunciations. Sounds are fast, clear and completely natural, pre-recorded by native speakers. Answers the question "How do you say...?".
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English pronunciation is crazy. Learning good English pronunciation is hard, and perfect pronunciation is harder—use these strategies to make learning easier.
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We talked to Eric Spreat and Paz Sepúlveda who regularly evaluate tests completed by freelancers.
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Founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars, the Modern Language Association (MLA) promotes the study and teaching of language and literature.
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Over 1,000 languages are severely or critically endangered, according to UNESCO, and some scientists are saying economic growth is driving language extinction. But what might be the consequences of less language diversity?
When Marlin Spoonhunter returned to the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming after decades working as an educator in Montana, he realized that something crucial, something elemental to his Northern Arapaho identity, had escaped him — the language."
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What role can instructional technology play in providing ELLs equal access to effective math education?
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Business English students need access to authentic material to increase their vocabulary and comprehension. This is easily achieved if they read English language newspapers, watch news reports, etc.
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Roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide are currently learning a foreign language. If you are one of them, this article is for you. Whether you are learning to..
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Discover the English at Work survey, created by Cambridge English and QS. Learn more about English language skills in the workplace and what this means for your company
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Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun, challenging exercises. Here you will find the movie segments, the lesson plans, printable worksheets with answer key for each activity, and the tips to develop your own grammar activities with the DVDs you have at home. New activities are posted regularly. Teaching grammar with movie segments is inspiring and highly motivating.
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Want to learn English through movies and film? You've come to the right place! Here's our helpful guide for learning English through movies and film!
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This article provides a list of language learning tools to help you learn English at home.
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I often get emails from teachers worried that online tools and resources are going to replace them. My opinion is that this won’t happen anytime soon. Additionally, we shouldn’t see these resources as competition but, instead, as potentially useful tools to help us better help our learners. And in this post, I want to look at …
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The state Committee on Geographic Names voted to recommend the state Natural Resources Board change the name of Squaw Bay on Shaw Island and Squaw Creek.
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Remember your seventh-grade Spanish class? Of course you do. But do you remember anything from it? You might’ve left off language-learning with decent proficiency at some point in your educational career, only to forget most of it with disuse in the years since. But picking up where you left off–or backtracking to the very beginning–isn’t a bad idea as an adult. In fact, trying to learn (or relearn) a language as an adult can help your brain in ways that spill over into the rest of your working life–even if you never actually become fluent. Here’s how.
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