#36, Book of the week: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Crystal, an author, lecturer, and BBC broadcaster on language, here approaches English with the same…

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#36, Blog of the Week: huffenglish.com

Hi friends, huffenglish.com is the blog of the week for issue #36. Dana Huff runs huffenglish.com. Dana teaches 9-12th grade English and a 10th grade Writing Seminar at the Weber School, a private Jewish high school in the Atlanta metro-area. She has been teaching since 1997; She taught middle school Language Arts and Journalism for two years and pre-K for one year and all the rest have been high school English.

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#36, Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia

Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.(Webster dictionary) The national centre for cultural competence defines culture as an" integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to the succeeding generation.(Good,Sockalingam,Brown&Jones,2000)

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