An international research team has examined how English lessons in primary school affect language proficiency in this subject in secondary school. Children who started learning English in the first ...

COMING from a Pakistani background, with a mother who has spent her life translating for Asian women, I know the power of language. And as a journalist I am aware of the importance of using language ...

Proposed changes to the New South Wales English syllabus reinforce the misguided idea that the teaching of language and literacy skills should fall chiefly to English teachers, leaving other teachers ...