As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

The closed-season school board meeting was called to order half an hour late by its chairman, J. Buckdancer Alcott, because the board members saw Windy Wilson sitting in the audience. Windy had no ...

Tired of learning new English words only to forget them the next day? In this lesson, Claire shares five proven strategies to ...

Our lesson this week emphasizes alternative ways of saying things. Oftentimes, when we want to ask someone to get things done for us, we usually use the word ‘please’ to convey our request and to show ...

DOVER — Students at Dover Adult Learning Center are participating in Dover Reads in their own special way. The students in Kim Hanson's evening Adult Basic Education class read the book, 1000 Tracings ...

Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall vocabulary development, this study finds that students learning English as a second language pick up general vocabulary more quickly and target ...

Renee Montagne talks to Ben Zimmer, executive editor of Vocabulary.com, about some of the presidential and not so presidential words that came up during this week's Republican debate. DONALD TRUMP: I ...

With X Games Aspen 2016 starting tonight, it's time to step up your X Games vocabulary. Spencer O'Brien, four-time medalist and the first to land a backside 900 in women's snowboard slopestyle, ...

This article gathers together episodes from our beginners' Irish language course, Giota Beag. You can follow the links to hear individual lessons, and each lesson’s page includes the text of its key ...