The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

After almost five years teaching writing, English, ESL, and humanities courses to high school students and undergraduates, I have come to the conclusion that it is a serious mistake to ground ...

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

If you teach English learners, you already know the daily puzzle: a classroom full of students at five or six different ...

Rubrics aren’t going away anytime soon, but let’s not pretend they always help students or tackle the biggest problem in student writing. Rubrics give students criteria for how their grade will be ...

In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...

The History Writing Center launched a provisional position this quarter specifically geared toward helping students for whom English is a second language. History doctoral student Keith Clark took on ...

Eileen Han's letter bemoans students' deplorable scores on the English writing portion of college entrance exams (Letters, March 27, page 8). It is both sad and amusing to continually hear the same ...