Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student laughter with appropriate jokes, quips, and visual humor, a teacher can make the ...

In my last post, I introduced the subject of formal humor, which, by my definition, requires some foresight and planning, whether it be hours, days, months, or years. I touched on the most “primitive” ...

Sometimes adding a comedic element to marketing campaigns works well in all languages. Sometimes it doesn’t. Human emotions are universal, and neuroscience has shown us that brain patterns are too.

More than 500 students in 100-level language courses – including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish – learned how to understand humor in the language they are studying as part of ...