Issue 465 - May/Jun 2019
Give us more global English say teachers
The continued focus on native speaker standards in language testing and materials were identified as the main obstacles to incorporating Global English Language Teaching...
The New A-Z of ELT
A Dictionary of Terms and Concepts
Scott Thornbury
Macmillan Education
ISBN: 978-1-786-32788-8
The title of this well-established reference book is self-explanatory. I loved the first version, which appeared...
Growing up with clarity
Elinor Stokes tells Melanie Butler about life in a digital ELT family
You grew up in a TEFLing family, your father, Andrew, is a former...
The true cost of teachers
In the UK, minimum wage is calculated for every hour a worker is required to be on site, awake and on duty. Plus, any...
Tall tales to tempt learners
The Japanese government is getting into the anime business, with the publication of a new book featuring a Japanese schoolgirl, a swordsman and a...
Foreign students flood into the Netherlands
The “Anglicisation” of higher education in the Netherlands has caused a “code red crisis.” So begins a petition to the Dutch Parliament, sent in...
