Beginning in fall 2021, undergraduate students across the University will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the building blocks of language through a new minor in Linguistics. Offered ...

Readers pointed out that the heavy focus on grammar tests and the lack of real-life practice are key issues in English education in Vietnam. "Vietnam is a country full of English learners, but ...

Focus on linguistics The multilingual postion of Brussels was the topic of Prof. dr Wim Vandenbussche' s presentation on 27 February. Vandenbussche showed that the position of the Dutch language in ...

The University of Guyana, through its Department of Language and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education and Humanities, will host the 2024 conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics ...

Historical Linguistics also allows Linguists to explore languages which do not exist anymore, such as Gothic, Old English, Latin, Sanskrit and so on. It is fascinating to attempt to reconstruct how ...

The CU Linguistics department has long emphasized the documentation of endangered and poorly described languages, with a focus on fostering the survival of these languages through curriculum ...

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, ...

Rebecca Scarborough has been a faculty member in Linguistics and a fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at CU since 2007. Dr. Scarborough works in the areas of phonetics and laboratory ...

Rather than simply learning vocabulary and grammar, and using them to talk about, say, regional identity or multiculturalism, linguistics-based lessons focus on how language relates to these topics.

A grammar lesson in the classroom leads to one giant ewe or ugh. It’s just not cool to speak like an academic. If a child does, the nerd word comes up.