Confession: I never read “The Grapes of Wrath.” Not until now. Most people are forced to read it in high school. It was ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows. By Dana Goldstein When you were in high school, did your English teacher assign you full books to read from ...

A recent analysis of the American Time Use Survey revealed a steady decline in pleasure reading, reading that is not for work or school. According to the researchers at University College London and ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Books that can help improve your English can make sure that the language’s use is sophisticated and understandable on all conditions, be it for reading, writing or speaking. Explore the 5 best books ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

When you read Tolstoy in English, you are reading someone else's interpretation. Translators make thousands of invisible ...

Discover how mother tongue reading clubs in Singapore are fostering bilingualism and strengthening ties to local culture ...