Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

How can you create a balance between short and long sentences, and how does that change the flow of ideas in your writing? This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences ...

In this episode we will learn about sentence types: simple, complex, compound and compound-complex; and how to use them in your writing. Examiners will look at the range of sentence types you use in ...

A run‐on sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together with insufficient punctuation. This means that there are two or more complete sentences fused into one sentence. Use a colon: a ...

English is spoken as lingua franca among the people of many countries across the world. It has proved its credential as the ...

English is one of the most nuanced, complex languages in existence today. With approximately 372 million speakers in 106 countries, it’s also one of the most widely spoken languages. Whether English ...

Practice makes perfect and creating a draft is your first step towards a great story. Learn how to draft your writing with BBC Bitesize 3rd level English. How to use language for effect Word choices ...

Effective writing is readable — that is, clear, accurate, and concise. When you are writing a paper, try to get your ideas across in such a way that the audience will understand them effortlessly, ...

I’ve previously published a series on teachers’ favorite lessons for ELL newcomers. Now, it’s time to do the same for intermediate ELLs. Maria Cruz teaches English for speakers of other languages at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell ...