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.

“ Native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) preferred”. “Must be a native English speaker with an American or British accent”.

In his 1913 play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” While Shaw was referring to ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. As the second season of the hit Israeli TV show Fauda is taking the world by storm, conversations among the fans turn, once again, to its linguistic premises: Can ...

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 ...

Picture this: A group of nonnative English speakers are in a room. There's someone from Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria and France. They're having a great ...

The shift to remote work means we have a greater ability and opportunity to work with people worldwide, who may not be native English-speakers. Here are five things you can do to ensure those ...

Almost from the moment of birth, human beings are able to distinguish between speakers of their native language and speakers of all other languages. We have a hard-wired preference for our own ...

I was born and raised in Rome, so Italian is my native language. Now I live in the US, and I’m basically bilingual. Yet, when I hear other people speak English with an accent, sometimes I have a hard ...

Struggling with the TOEFL speaking section? Learn tips from a native English speaker to improve your score. Practice ...