As a writer and translator of scientific texts, Scott L. Montgomery has had a front-row seat to an extraordinary development: the rapid ascent of English as the lingua franca of science. As recently ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Whether or not science needs a global language -- which, Scott L. Montgomery believes, it does -- like it or not, it already has one: English. So Montgomery argues in his new book, Does Science Need a ...