The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...
Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra I’m going to put it out there - most teachers don’t know enough about how the English language works [aka grammar], and this ...
Vietnamese students spend years studying English, yet many still freeze the moment they meet a native speaker. That gap showed up when the daughter of my colleague, a tenth grader at a public high ...