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  1. Teachers at Work

     I'm a Believer: Vocab Words Out of Context
    Wed May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Traditional vocabulary instruction holds that students learn new words best when they learn them in context. Our "Teachers at Work" contributor Shannon Reed made the startling classroom discovery that context isn't always key.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Falling in Love with Pronouns
    Tue May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    In the latest issue of The American Scholar, psycholinguistics graduate student Jessica Love explains how she became entranced with a mild-mannered part of speech, the pronoun. "I have fallen for pronouns," Love writes. "It's hard to shut me up about them."

  3. Teachers at Work

     Heidi Hayes Jacobs on the Challenges of the 21st-Century Classroom
    Mon May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last week, in part one of our interview with education expert Heidi Hayes Jacobs we heard about how American educators can revise their literacy instruction to become more active, engaging, and ultimately effective. In part two, Heidi reveals how educational technology, including the Visual Thesaurus, can help keep pace with 21st-century students.

  4. Lesson Plans

     Words That Hold Court
    Mon May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can students learn legal terminology associated with the Supreme Court?

  5. Backstory

     M.J. Rose, Author of "The Hypnotist"
    Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    International bestselling author M. J. Rose's The Hypnotist is an adventure, a love story, a clash of cultures, and a spiritual quest. Above all, it is a thrilling capstone to her Reincarnation novels, The Reincarnationist and The Memoirist. Here M.J. shares the inspiration behind her latest novel.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Parliamentary Language
    Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Contentini, a UK-based content strategy firm, has analyzed 75 years of British parliamentary debates to determine trends in the political use of language. Key words like stakeholder and innovation have risen in usage, while others like industry and men have fallen. Read about it here.

  7. Teachers at Work

     Heidi Hayes Jacobs on Making Literacy Instruction Work
    Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of literacy, curriculum and instruction, and educational reform. In the first part of our interview, Heidi exposes the pitfalls of American literacy instruction and explains what we can do to improve it.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     A Map of American English, via Twitter
    Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Computational linguist David Bamman has created a fascinating new website called Lexicalist. By analyzing Twitter and other social media, he has mapped the U.S. according to what people are talking about, and how they're saying it. Bamman explains how the project came together in a guest Language Log post here.

  9. Word Routes

     Of Fanboys and FANBOYS
    Wed May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    On the website Technologizer, Harry McCracken has provided a lovingly detailed history of the term fanboy, as it traveled from the world of underground comics to become "the tech world's favorite put-down." It got me thinking about the development of the mnemonic aid FANBOYS, which every English composition teacher knows is an acronym for the coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Next!
    Tue May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Thanks to Chatroulette, the ridiculously popular website that pairs random strangers around the world for webcam conversations, we have a new verb in English: to next. Two language-related blogs explain what it means.
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