As the month of July flew by, our conversations drifted to exploring how project-based learning and English Learner instruction aligned. Certainly, we agreed, the two pedagogies reinforced each other.

David Jakle/Corbis. English is a language rich in metaphor — take for example the many ways that human behavior can be linked with birds. Someone who is fearful is a chicken, a show-off can be ...

As part of the project, arguably more important than simply examining and organizing syntactic variation, Zanuttini and her colleagues hope to correct the misconception that American English has a ...