2016-03-04 National Grammar Day Is Here!
What will you be doing on Friday? How will you have spent your day? Do you have trouble understanding these questions? Then you should mark your calendar! Language teachers, learners…
2016-03-02 Immigrants Learn to Lose Their Accents
Some immigrants in the northeastern state of Maine are learning to lose their accents. Some of the immigrants speak English fluently, but have a difficult time being understood because they…
2016-02-23 Body Language Can Help With Public Speaking
Today, we return to the subject of successful public speaking centering on the physical message of presentation. Some call this body language. Charles LeBeau is a professor of public speaking…
2016-02-20 Colleges Look to Change Admission Process
Educators across the U.S. are calling for major changes to the admissions process in higher education. The National Center for Educational Statistics (or NCES) reported that U.S. colleges and universities…
2016-02-16 Afraid of Public Speaking? You Are Not Alone!
Students in American schools learn from an early age to give presentations as part of their regular classroom activities. Children as young as five years old often give brief talks…
2016-02-13 New Land, New Customs
As refugees and migrants flood Europe, Finland is teaching its new arrivals about appropriate behavior. Over 1 million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015. Most were fleeing struggling economies and…
2016-02-06 Politicians Suggest Ways to Reduce Tuition
U.S. presidential candidates are talking about the problem of high costs in higher education. From 2002 until 2012, tuition increased by around 39 percent, on average, among public or government-funded…
2016-01-30 US Religious Colleges Test Anti-Discrimination Law
Justin Massey chose to study at Wheaton College in 2011 because of the university’s strong religious and academic record. “I grew up as a very strong Christian and my faith…
2016-01-02 Flying Robots Are Coming to US Universities
Flying devices, called drones, may be one of the most important technologies of the future. The number of jobs for people who know how to design, build and control them…
2016-01-28 Improve Your Writing with Contrast and Concession
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about words that connect opposing ideas. We call these ideas contrast or concession. Some of these…
2016-01-23 Do You Pay Full Tuition As Your Roommate Pays Less?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The problem Congressional Research Services reports that over the past 25 years, college fees rose almost 2 percent faster than inflation…
2016-01-21 SAT Testing in Asia Cancelled in Cheating Scandal
Test centers in China and Macau are canceling the SAT planned for Saturday because of claims of cheating. The SAT is a standardized test that measures academic ability. Many colleges…
2016-01-20 Cameron Calls for Female Immigrants to Learn English
British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for women immigrants to Britain to learn English within 30 months or be deported. The plan targets Muslim women joining their husbands already…
2016-01-20 Best Tool to Teach Baby Talk? Their Parents’ Voice
A new study says electronic toys are not helping babies learn. “Even if companies are marketing them as educational, they’re not teaching the babies anything at this time,” said the…
2016-01-10 ‘They’ Wins as Linguists’ Word of the Year
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The competition was more youthful, more hipster, more urban, even naughtier. But in the end, “they” won. The pronoun “they” won…