English question words do more than request information. They shape tone, intention, and flow. Many learners translate directly from their own language, creating awkward phrasing. Native speakers use ...

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The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Jan. 30 it would soon issue all driver license exams in English only. Previously, knowledge exams for most non-commercial driver ...

Declan Flanagan is affiliated with NATECLA. Mike Chick is affiliated with the Welsh Refugee Council. What happens when learning English stops being a bridge into society and starts to feel like a test ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Abstract: Java offers the Java Native Interface (JNI), which allows programs running in the Java Virtual Machine to invoke and be manipulated by native applications and libraries written in other ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Fashion is no longer confined to fabric or storefronts. Increasingly, it's being built with code, worn by avatars and shaped by players who don’t care whether a garment exists in the physical world at ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

House Republicans introduced the SAFE Drivers Act to require a standardized English proficiency test for all commercial driver license applicants and renewals nationwide. Supporters say the measure ...