Issue 470 - May 2020
Thais to target 10,000 teachers
Thailand’s education minister, Nataphol Teepsuwan, met ambassadors from unnamed “English-speaking countries” in February and requested that they find teachers of English and other subjects...
Teach in Australia
Phiona Stanley reviews the pros and cons of teaching “down under”
Ah, Australia: surf some big waves, take a selfie with a quokka, and hang...
Australia’s ELT industry “on the edge of a cliff”
A month after the Australian government released a strategy to make Australia the “destination of choice” for international English language students, industry association English...
Is AI poised to dominate testing?
Can computers replace human language testers? They are getting close, as John Roscoe finds out
The ascendance of artificial intelligence (AI) as the ultimate solution...
Why CLIL doesn’t fit with the Welsh report on second language learning
CLIL is not a methodology says Jason Skeet of NILE in Norwich
As CLIL trainers, we were asked to look at the research on CLIL...
Global Perspective
Gazette news editor Matt Salusbuy’s selection of ELT news from around the world
UK:
Language school association English UK, supported by the Tourism Alliance, has persuaded...
