Under the common core, teachers will need more than just a toolkit of strategies for teaching vocabulary words—they’ll need deep understanding of how language works, says a teacher-educator.

The concept of functional load has been used by various writers in various linguistic fields and has consequently received differing definitions and methods of calculation. It has not, however, been ...

Recent studies on language teaching have laid the groundwork for "functional" program development, but very little has yet been produced which can be considered functional classroom materials. This ...