Purdue students who fall below a 2.0 grade point average will no longer be “on academic probation” – instead, they’ll be “on academic notice,” thanks to a change in academic regulations language ...

Jonah Berger and Olivier Toubia used natural language processing to understand what drives academic success. The authors analyzed over 20,000 college application essays from a large public university ...

Over at my other blog, Curriculum Matters, I’ve written about Word Generation: Middle School Literacy Development Using Academic English, a new Web tool with resources for teaching “academic language.

No one is a native speaker of academic English. As the formal written and spoken language of classrooms and professional workplaces, academic English often bears little resemblance to the social, ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

Bentham Science Publishers are delighted to announce a new strategic collaboration with Academic Language Experts (ALE) in order to augment author experiences. ALE and Bentham will work together to ...

Academic writing will probably be very different to writing that you have produced before. There are very specific conventions, characteristics and rules that need to be adhered to. They convey ...

We will publish the information and dates for our 2026 course in autumn 2025. Applications for this course are currently closed. This intensive, week-long course is designed to help teachers deepen ...

South Africa is celebrated as a rainbow nation, rich in linguistic and cultural diversity, with 12 official languages reflecting its complex heritage. Despite this multilingual reality, English — a ...