Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in "plain-vanilla," academic language and style. In the ...

‘Language is power, power to communicate, express your ideas, and be a part of society,’ said Claudette Vigueras, a migrant from Mexico, during the opening of a conference on ‘Informal language ...

On 9 December 2022, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), together with the Swedish non-governmental organization Språkkraft and the Nordic Council of Ministers, will host the second ...