Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

For most kids, English class is, at its best, a place where you learn how to communicate and in the process hopefully encounter a few stimulating ideas. Many English teaching higher-ups disagree.

Linguists believe Black English might have originated from West African or Creole languages. Getty Images Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began ...

“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...