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 ...

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 ...

James Harbeck investigates why the English language became so hard to spell – and why we only have ourselves to blame. You may have seen a poem by Gerard Nolst Trinité called The Chaos. It ...

The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. ‘The’. It’s omnipresent; we can’t imagine English without it. But it’s not much to look at ...

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.

English majors are becoming an increasingly rare commodity. The share of new bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities dropped below 12 percent in 2015 for the first time since 1987 ...

The number of English language learners in public schools is nearing 5 million. Many are struggling academically, despite well-intentioned efforts to help them learn English.

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 ...

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.

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 ...