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W-T and Taylor & Francis Group: over six years of collaboration
Since April 2007, Taylor & Francis Group, one of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works, has trusted Web-Translations to translate hundreds of...
View ArticleFor ELLs, What Does Effective Instruction Look Like?
A new issue of American Educator magazine spotlights what research says about instruction for English-language learners.
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Giving children non-verbal clues about words boosts vocabularies
The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research shows. By using words to reference objects in the...
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Literacy DuPage looks for more language tutors - Chicago Tribune
Chicago TribuneLiteracy DuPage looks for more language tutorsChicago TribuneAs the numbers continue to grow, so does the need for language tutors, said Carol Garcia, program director for Literacy...
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Medieval book in unknown language contains message - CNET (blog)
BBC NewsMedieval book in unknown language contains messageCNET (blog)It has stumped code breakers, language experts, and mathematicians. The mysterious medieval book known as the Voynich Manuscript was...
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Kim English Visited The RG Combs Language Preschool - MUTigers.com
Kim English Visited The RG Combs Language PreschoolMUTigers.comFormer Mizzou Basketball star Kim English has been back in Missouri this summer working out and hosting camps throughout the state, but on...
View ArticleChevrolet wants a consistent global brand — hopefully a consistent website...
Interesting article in the WSJ (sub. required) about Alan Batey, the new global brand chief of Chevrolet. From the article: Mr. Batey says he wants to unify the brand’s strategy. “We used to operate...
View ArticleTHE DOHA DICTIONARY.
This is great news:The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announced the official launch of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language, on May 25, 2013, following two years of...
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Zimmerman murder trial begins: bad language, worse joke (+video) - Christian...
Christian Science MonitorZimmerman murder trial begins: bad language, worse joke (+video)Christian Science MonitorOpening statements in the murder trial of George Zimmerman featured sharply different...
View ArticleSupport Ticket System Backlog
Hey gang, This is just a quick note to let you know a little something. The support ticket system is broken. Partially in technical sense (overrun by spam), but mostly in a human way (me). In fact,...
View Article6/25/13 - lustrum
1. A ceremony to purify all the Roman people conducted every five years after the census had been taken; the census itself. 2. A period of four or five years, hence a collegiate lustrum.
View ArticleWords in the News: Betrayal
The Daily Mail leads with the father of murdered Stephen Lawrence's call for a judge-led inquiry into allegations undercover officers were tasked to "smear" his family. Full story >> VOCABULARY...
View ArticleReuters Video: Daredevil crosses a gorge near the Grand Canyon on tightrope
Aerialist Nik Wallenda completes a high-wire walk across a section of the Little Colorado River Gorge near the Grand Canyon. Elly Park reports. TRANSCRIPT REPORTER: It's down to the wire for American...
View ArticleCartoon: Searching for Snowden
This cartoon by Chris Weyant from The Hill combines two news stories: the search for missing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the escape of a red panda called Rusty from Washington's National Zoo....
View ArticleA little more about feelings…
A couple weeks ago, we looked at some basic “emotion” terms in Russian — how to express that you’re “Feeling Glad, Sad, or Mad.” This time, we’ll round out that list with a few more feelings. To...
View ArticleTop 100 Language Lovers Competition 2013 – The final brief
Since we published the results of our competition June 12th, this is the perfect time to take stock of it. Hosting the competition has always been a great experience, but this year it was even more...
View ArticleThailand: The Land of Smiles…and Business Opportunity
With economic growth slowing in the established but saturated markets of North America and Europe, it's no surprise that businesses are seeking new growth opportunities in emerging markets elsewhere....
View ArticleWord of the day: Satsuma
The name of this type of mandarin originated from the Japanese province of Satsuma and was introduced to the Anglo-Saxon world via an American diplomat in the 1870s. Up to a million trees were exported...
View ArticleGiant Bomb E3 Set Porn Bears
Noun pile? Crash Blossom? We report, you decide… Rollin Bishop, "Quest for Giant Bomb E3 Set Porn Bears Fruit", 6/24/2013: The Electronic Entertainment Expo — E3 for short — is held in Los Angeles...
View ArticleLove and bagels in southwest London
Here in the UK, it’s Wimbledon time again. Tennis has its own vocabulary, and – as in many sublanguages – much of it consists of specialized meanings of common, everyday words (like game, set, serve,...
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