Par Élodie Soulié. Lorsqu’elle remonte les Champs-Elysées (VIIIe) tout sourire entre deux policiers, gilet pare-balles de rigueur et drapeau chinois au plastron, Florine suscite pas mal de curiosité. Mais quand elle aborde des touristes de l’empire du Milieu, très vite la méfiance s’évanouit. Suite...
Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries – like Germany, France and Spain – English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands this ratio is an astonishing 40:1, writes Adam Huttner-Koros for The Atlantic. Read more...
By Lucy Ferriss. I hadn’t given Parent 1 and Parent 2 a thought before I saw the headline on Tennessee’s “reversal” of its “ban on ‘mother’ and ‘father.’” Huh, I thought. How had I missed news of a state’s banning mothers. More...
By William Germano. It’s difficult to read any standard definition of the word trump and not feel that the lexicographers had an eye on the contemporary political moment.
The word may have never been on our lips as often as in the past year. The Google Ngram Viewer demonstrates an enthusiasm for the word trump as peaking in the 1890s, back in America’s Gilded Age, after which it went into decline until the beginning of this century. More...
By Ben Yagoda. These quotations, in their various ways, get to a deceptively simple truth about good writing. That is, it should be similar to speech, but … The “but” is expressed by Sterne in “properly managed,” by Steffens in “would,” by Wilder in “the impression,” by Maugham in “should” and “well-bred.” Everyone knows that pure speech doesn’t work on the page. Transcribe any conversation (except maybe one between John Updike and Clive James) and you will see rampant halts and starts, “um”s and “uh”s, redundancies, ellipses, grammatical solecisms, and all manner of infelicities. More...
By Geoffrey Pullum. Proper names for colleges and universities are of three main types, syntactically. The first, which I’ll call the XU type (for simplicity I limit discussion here to names with the head noun University) has a modifier preceding the head noun, as in Harvard University. The second, the UX type, has a postnominal complement, usually a preposition phrase headed by the preposition of and almost always specifying a location, as in the University of California (UC). More...
By EAIE. We’re kicking off the new year with another series of posts highlighting the stories of EAIE members. This time we’ve interviewed a handful of newly elected 2014–2016 leaders. Check out this first story featuring Jennifer Valcke, a member of the EAIE Expert Community Steering group, Languages for Intercultural Communication and Mobility (LICOM), and recent winner of the 2014 Rising star award. Read about her passion for languages and communication and where it stems from. More...
An expanded study of English Language Training (ELT) in the UK provides further evidence that Britain is losing share in the global ELT marketplace. The report sheds new light as well on the composition of the enrolment base – the increasing role of the junior market in particular – and other important trends for UK providers.
Released earlier this month, the English UK Student Statistics Report 2014 combines survey data from member centres with international market data to provide a comprehensive view of enrolment trends for UK ELT centres, and to set those within the broader context of the global industry. Read more...
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