Welcome back to Teaching in Room 9, our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School. In here for teaching in Room 9, my lessons focus on ...

How do you pronounce words that begin with lots of consonants? What is a consonant cluster? It's a word that has multiple consonant sounds together. Look at the consonants at the starts of these words ...

The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it's unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question, and ...

You know "Pa-sgetti"—it's pasta with tomato sauce—and it's also the way many young children pronounce spaghetti. Why? Linguists who study how children learn language can tell you. The "sp" in ...

This paper is intended as a contribution to an evergrowing body of literature on the role played by principles and parameters of Universal Grammar in second-language acquisition theory. A recent paper ...