I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics, with a Master’s in Linguistics with a sociolinguistics/anthropology focus. My main research interests are ...

What are some body language of other culture you mistook as something else? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder. I received both my BA in Linguistics and MS in Linguistics (concentrating in Sociolinguistics) from ...

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used ...