Along with Afrikaans, English is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and even though only 9.6 percent of the population speak English as their first language, it “dominates every ...

The number of English-learner students in U.S. schools has increased 28 percent since 2000; 43 of 50 states have experienced an uptick in enrollment, federal data indicate.

Readers respond to a column by Pamela Paul about the value of English courses and majors. To the Editor: Re “How to Get Kids to Hate English,” by Pamela Paul (column, March 12): Brava, Ms ...

Sharp declines in the English major (as well as in other majors across the humanities) have occasioned a great deal of coverage in recent years; Nathan Heller’s widely read New Yorker essay ...

Though the English language has many quirks, one of its most interesting is homographs: words that are spelled identically but have different meanings or definitions. There are at least 10 words ...

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight.

Schumacher, as it happens, also teaches English and creative writing — in her case at the University of Minnesota — and is clearly well versed in the sort of academic turf wars, departmental ...

John McWhorter: There’s nothing wrong with Black English The Black English gap, as one might call it, matters: It can affect people’s lives at crucial junctures.