As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Integrated Skills courses are designed to help lower-level students with all of the language and skills needed to learn and use English, with a special focus on oral communication. Students will ...

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...

It has been developed to offer test-takers a choice and an alternative to other high-stakes admission tests. The test experience is user-friendly and ‘human’, with a live proctor and speaking test ...

The first time I heard ontological in class, I ignored it. Epistemological soon followed, which—after a smattering of repetitions—merited a Google search. A semester or two later I tossed the ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...