Here is a proposition for you: choose any author you love, find out where they live, break into their house when they are away on holidays, and loot through the drawers of their writing desk. There, ...
Incidental focus on form is one of several ways to direct language learners' attention to formal aspects of language within meaningful communicative contexts. Learners can benefit from focus on form, ...
Sheikh Abdullah Bin Salem Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, and Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmed Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Chairman of the Sharjah Media Council, attended ...
The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...
The contemporary memoir must surely be the most thankless of all literary genres. It remains an understudied category in scholarship, and is perceived as a lightweight or opportunist form among ...
A work of translation is a world recreated in another tongue. Translators who transcreate a literary text invariably slip into the style and cultural consciousness of ano­ther writer. While working ...
Any play by Alice Birch, a firebrand of the imagination, is worth seeing. Every critic can tell you about the opening performances they’ve witnessed when they knew a modern classic was being born. For ...
There’s no doubt about it, the short story is having “a moment”. It started this time last year, when Lydia Davis, not so much a short-story writer as a short-short-story writer (some of her tales are ...