A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

You will only see these language functions (added in December 2024) if you're using the Excel Windows or Mac desktop app as a Microsoft 365 subscriber, Excel for the web, or the Excel mobile app.

There are 5 million students like Rosario — English Language Learners or ELLs — living in the U.S., and we're going to spend much of the next year reporting on them.

How Oxford Dictionaries choose which new words to include. Clipped forms, acronyms, blends and abbreviations have long been productive methods of word formation in English (think of bus, smog and ...