In an unprecedented new study, researchers have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are released during the processing ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you ...

Wonderful Words is a series of short, animated films to support vocabulary knowledge. This series is relevant for teaching English at KS2 in England and Northern Ireland and Second level in Scotland.

We’re all guilty of using a thesaurus to find complicated words to use to sound smarter. Unfortunately this often backfires because we either don’t fully understand what the word means ...

A new study published in Acta Psychologica has found that handwriting provides significant advantages over visual learning ...

Prof Webb found that people who have been studying languages in a traditional setting - say French in Britain or English in Japan - often struggle to learn more than 2,000 to 3,000 words ...

Vocabulary study usually looks quite different for ... same derivation – on ACT or SAT passages. More than 60% of English words have Greek or Latin roots, so it can be extremely helpful to ...