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  1. Lesson Plans

     Spanish-English Cognates in the ELL Classroom: Friends or Foes?
    Tue Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can the Visual Thesaurus help Spanish-speaking ELL students differentiate between true and false cognates?

  2. Teachers at Work

     False Friends: Diverting Traffic in the Language Classroom
    Mon Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Fitch O'Connell is a longtime teacher of English as a foreign language, working for the British Council in Portugual and other European countries. Here Fitch examines some of the most treacherous pitfalls of the English-language classroom: "false friends," or words that appear to share a common meaning across languages but are actually different.

  3. Language Lounge

     Barnumania
    Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The great secret of success in anything is to get a hearing. Half the object is gained when the audience is assembled.
    —Phineas T. Barnum
    Now that you're all here: it seems a suitable time to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of P. T. Barnum — a name that you probably don't associate with language in a particular way.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     A Confusing Job Title
    Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The top financial officer in the state of New York is the Comptroller — but nobody is quite sure how to pronounce it. It originally sounded like "controller," but that pronunciation has faded. Sam Dolnick, metro reporter for The New York Times, investigates here.

  5. Word Count

     Grammar Bite: Adjective Basics
    Thu Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Adjectives can be a writer's greatest friend, creating rich images and clear meaning. They can also be her worst enemy, convey conflicting ideas and tripping her up at every juncture. Today, we dip our toes into the pool of adjectives with a few general rules.

  6. Dog Eared

     One Word: "Fork," by Thylias Moss
    Wed Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Sarabande Books is publishing a fascinating new anthology entitled, One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe. The editor, Molly McQuade, asked 66 writers the question, "What one word means the most to you, and why?" Among the essays McQuade has collected is "Sixpack," an exploration of six words by the experimental writer Thylias Moss. Tucker Capps has drawn from Moss's musings on the word fork to create a captivating short film.

  7. Word Routes

     Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
    Tue Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Earlier this month, a post by Dan Frommer on Business Insider had this to say about Google, Facebook and Apple: "Recently, all three companies have been making a lot of 'acq-hires,' where they buy a company to acquire its human resources." You read that right: acq-hire. Where did this odd word come from?

  8. Teachers at Work

     Chunking: Another Perspective
    Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We recently heard from Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer about the "chunking" approach to English-language instruction, which focuses on teaching students how stretches of words ("lexical chunks") tend to fall together in high frequency. Brett Reynolds, a professor of academic English at Humber College in Toronto, has long been somewhat skeptical of chunking, and we asked him to offer a contrasting perspective on the value of the approach for language teaching.

  9. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Today is National Punctuation Day, so naturally for the September edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword we have a punctuation-themed puzzle for you. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  10. Blog Excerpts

     People Who Became Nouns
    Thu Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    "It's easy to forget that some of the English language's most common words had real-life namesakes in living, breathing people." Life Magazine has put together a slide show of some of the most notable eponyms, from Henry Shrapnel to Etienne Silhouette. Check it out here.
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