BBC

Language and structure - Eduqas

The structure of a text is how it is organised and how its parts fit together. Writers structure their texts deliberately to have an effect on the reader. Exam questions ask you to comment on how ...
The Conversation

Languages are both acquired and learned – so conscious and unconscious effort is needed when picking up a new one

Boris Vazquez-Calvo is principal investigator of two funded research projects: (1) SEGUE: Social Media and Video Games in language learning and teaching of student teachers (ref.: B1-2021_33, ...
The Conversation

Learning grammar is just as important as it always was but the way we teach it has changed

John Munro. has in the past been a chief investigator on ARC-funded projects Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was ...
New Scientist

Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...
Psychology Today

Systematic Tool Use and Language Are Key to Human Uniqueness

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...