For many English learners, speaking is the most difficult part of the language to master. To improve your speaking skills, you need to be able to practice with other English learners or English speakers. One way to do this is by joining or starting a...
Suppose you are listening to a program in English and hear the word borrow. You have heard this word many times but forget its meaning. So, you look up the equivalent word in your own language. Ahh, yes, now you remember! A few days later, you see th...
Lets look at two English learners. One knows about 500 words and understands how they are used in a sentence. The other knows about 1,000 words but has some problems with grammar. Which person can understand and communicate more in English? Clearly,...
Email is one of the most important ways through which we communicate. It has become part of most everyones day-to-day life. Writing a good email can mean the difference between someone reading it and writing back, and someone ignoring it all together...
极端天气导致多数儿童上学中断 UN Says 250 million Students Missed School in 2024 Because of Weather A United Nations report has found that extreme weather interrupted the schooling of at least 242 million children last year. 联合国的一...
Sherlock Holmes is an imaginary private detective created by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880s. Doyle's stories about the detective have been turned into movies and television shows. One of Sherlock Holmes' great skills is a powerfu...
Assistive technology involves special equipment and computer software that is meant to help people with disabilities. The latest assistive technology is being powered by artificial intelligence (AI), which might help many students who have difficulti...
In today's workplace, what you learned in the usual college courses may not be very useful later in life. For example, in the field of information technology, workers might never use BASIC, the computer language that was taught in the 1990s. But they...
In the Education Tips series, education experts in the United States give you ideas about how you can improve your English skills. This week, Eli Hinkel, a professor at Seattle Pacific University, and Marla Yoshida, a Teaching English as a Foreign La...
