We need to stop telling our students to have their essays checked by a native English speaker. It doesn’t help them, sometimes harms them, and perpetuates a false narrative about writing and language.

Michael Erard is the author of "Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners." Updated January 29, 2012, 7:00 PM Whether or not you think learning a language other ...

Being an immigrant journalist in the U.S. comes with a truckload of microaggressions. While the current political scenario has presented itself as a living nightmare for refugees and immigrants alike, ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. In 1953, Costa-Rican ambassador in Italy, Teodoro Castro, and his beautiful Mexican wife Laura welcomed to the world a baby daughter, Romanella. The ambassador was a ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

Twice a year, when I visit my in-laws in Poland, I get to dabble in the soft science of linguistics in my futile attempt to learn the Polish language. Few people outside my immediate family can ...