Daily Mail

Average English child says ‘like’ five times more than their grandparents as 20 year language study finds standards are also slipping at the House of Commons

A new study from Cambridge University reveals language is becoming more informal and even royalty and MPs are speaking incorrectly. The average English child is likely to say the word 'like' five ...
Center for American Progress

Using No Child Left Behind Waivers to Improve English Language Learner Education

Theodora Chang discusses the benefits of No Child Left Behind waivers for English language learners and English as a second language teachers. Westside High School English Language Learners teacher ...
JSTOR Daily

Child First Language Acquisition of English and Spanish Prepositional and Double Object Constructions

This study examines the acquisition of dative alternation (DA), namely, prepositional structures and double object constructions (DOCs), in English and Spanish. The analysis of Spanish and English ...
JSTOR Daily

Modality, Infinitives, and Finite Bare Verbs in Dutch and English Child Language

Language Acquisition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2007), pp. 75-113 (39 pages) This article focuses on the meaning of nonfinite clauses ("root infinitives") in Dutch and English child language. I present ...