Thursday, May 1, 2025

Issue 470 - May 2020

Correcting teachers’ preconceptions of corrective feedback

Inexperienced teachers hesitate to correct, especially explicitly, despite believing that students need corrective feedback, according to a Canadian study. Ninety-nine pre-service ESL teachers were asked to rate their agreement with...

“Content must cease to be a slave to the language.”

Language classes shouldn’t be language led. CLIL shows us that concept and competences are key, argues Phil Ball There’s...

Online lessons from Tesol

UK unis can learn from ELT says Melanie Butler As British universities lobby the government to cover some of...

Making the grade in extensive reading

Matt Salusbury introduces the books on this year's ERF shortlist This year’s crop of 17 shortlisted titles have just...

Making the most of morphemes

Morphemic regularity may help babies acquire concepts like number and gender Research has long shown that, whatever their L1,...

ELT crisis hits headlines worldwide

New Zealand is the latest country where language schools’ pleas for government bailouts have featured in the national press. The ELT sector was the...

Personal Narratives of Teaching Epiphanies

Wayne Trotman reviews a new edited volume from Alan Maley Developing Expertise Through Experience Edited by Alan Maley British Council, 2019 ISBN: 978-0-86355-950-1 On the inside cover of this...

Language Course Planning

Brian North, Mila Angelova, Elƶbieta Jarosz and Richard Rossner OUP ISBN: 9780194403283 This 216-page book, in the ‘Language Education Management’ series, draws on the cumulative expertise of...

Welsh pool knowledge

Gillian Ragsdale dives into a review of effective language learning A team of researchers at Swansea University in Wales have recently published a systematic review...

Let’s not go back to business as usual

Getting back to normal is the last thing we need, argues Chris Etchells, author of ELTFootprint.uk, if it means sacrificing the health of the...

ETpedia™ Management: 500 ideas for managing an English Language school

Fiona Dunlop, Keith Harding and Robert McLarty Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN: 9781912755271 Language teachers moving into management positions often find themselves learning ‘on the job’....
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