The course – Advanced Grammar for English Teachers, is divided into four modules. Each lesson is subdivided into bite size learning blocks which include reflective tasks, podcasts and an end of lesson ...

Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

OUR lesson on sentence errors continues next week. Today, our focus is on expressions that are repetitive and redundant. Oftentimes in writing, some individuals use words that may be termed ...

Benjamin Miller works for the University of Sydney. University students across the nation will be handing in their first assignments of the academic year over the next few weeks. Academic staff will ...

A special course has been developed so teachers can prepare almost 200,000 primary school leavers for a rigorous English test next summer after a shake-up by former education secretary Michael Gove.

A few weeks ago, I cited several TV shows and movies that provided, of all things, grammar lessons. Then I asked you to send me more examples. As Gomer Pyle might have said, “Goll-ee!” Cindy Carlin ...

Self-taught teacher Nevile Gwynne's grammar primer has garnered a cult following, and is about to go mainstream with a new, expanded version. Elizabeth Grice meets him. Nevile Gwynne prefers ...

A Hong Kong parent writes: it really frustrates me that my Year Six son cannot use apostrophes correctly. The teaching of the English language appears very arbitrary these days, and it seems that ...

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced Thursday. Roy Peter Clark, a writing teacher at the Poynter Institute, offers an essay about how all the big, notable writers in the world once started ...

The Schools Secretary Ed Balls doesn't support selection and wants no more grammar schools. But, strangely, the number of pupils taught in grammar schools has increased by nearly a quarter while ...