National Grammar Day 2024 Quiz: Every year, National Grammar Day is celebrated on March 4. The day was established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, the founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good ...

The urge to fix that misplaced apostrophe in a stranger's tweet might have less to do with their grammar and more to do with ...

Language education has long been a cornerstone of academic enquiry and policy, with grammar instruction occupying a pivotal role in shaping linguistic competence. Recent decades have witnessed a shift ...

It’s science: Hearing bad grammar raises our stress level. I always knew this implicitly, but a recent study from the University of Birmingham shows this explicitly. In a small sample of 41 British ...

Second language acquisition research consistently distinguishes between implicit and explicit knowledge, recognising their distinct roles in linguistic processing. Implicit knowledge, gradually ...

Monika Schmid receives funding from DFG, NWO, AHRC and ESRC. There is another reason why studying a language at school will serve you well. As my new research shows, the knowledge you acquire in a ...

Mobile phone use and the popularity of social networks are often blamed for students who don't possess a good understanding of grammar. However, can we truly blame technology for poor writing skills, ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.