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.

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated Steve Graham’s affiliation. He is a professor at Arizona State University. If you want a hint of the gap between students’ writing skills and ...

The Okotoks Public Library has launched new Literacy Launch Kits, a program designed to support adults looking to improve their English comprehension and writing skills. Library director Sarah Gillie ...

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...

Everyone is a writer, according to the National Council of Teachers of English. And that's a good thing, given that being able to write is a vital skill across many professions. "There's really no ...

In a recent opinion essay, I defended the primacy of traditional literacy skills against the National Council of Teachers of English ’s mystifying call to “decenter” them. In this essay, I will ...

McGill researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of ...

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I was a science kid in high school; I loved physics and mathematics. When I learned my senior year that I was assigned to the English teacher with a reputation as the most rigorous in school, I ...

CBSE Class 12 Writing Section Practice Questions: The Writing Skills section in CBSE Class 12 English is an important section that assesses a student's ability to communicate effectively and organize ...