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A song about using a question mark.

Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.

Indigenous people are the first people to live in a place.

A song about conjunctions.

A song about prepositions.

A song about pronouns.

A song about adverbs.

Mark explains in detail when we need to use "do" as an auxiliary verb. This video is for students at an upper-intermediate level.

Culture Day At Canadian College of English Language

Mark explains in detail when English requires "be" as an auxiliary verb. This video is for students at an upper-intermediate level.

Dig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages.

Fostering a bilingual identity can be motivating and empowering for students. Hese is a short video to help the think through the process.

The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second.

If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)

Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.

Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.

In this video, Jack discusses professional development for ELT/ESL professionals.

Scott Thornbury's history of second language acquisition (SLA) in a nutshell. A lot of great ideas.

This talk was given by David Crystal for The English-Speaking Union annual lecture, in partnership with the British Council. There is a widely held view that one of the consequences of the rise of English as a world language is global intelligibility. However, at the level of everyday communication, cultural differences between the countries that use English often present a barrier to understanding. The talk illustrates some of the conversational cross-purposes that have taken place, and discusses the kind of cultural awareness all English speakers need to have when they interact with others on a global scale.

Dr. Krashen is perhaps best know for the general theory of second language acquisition.

Steven Pinker talks about Language Pragmatics and how language is learned through context.