Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is reshaping ESL classrooms by centering lessons on real-world communication instead of isolated grammar drills. This learner-focused method boosts fluency, ...

If the main goal of a language course is for learners to learn to use the target language more efficiently, fluently and correctly in authentic language use situations, then current scientific ...

Alex Rawlings was a language teacher's dream. He fell in love with languages when he was eight and learnt Greek, then German, then Dutch. Now, an undergraduate at Oxford, he is the UK's most ...

This is a pre-conference workshop as part of the 2026 Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning. This pre‑conference session explores how linguistic and cultural diversity can serve as ...

There are two general locations upon the landscape of second language teaching and learning where individuals learn a second, foreign, or additional language. The first is in a socio-cultural context ...

Kim McDonough is Professor in Applied Linguistics who joined the Department of Education at Concordia in 2010. Her research interests include psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition ...