Vying for global domination
Jeffrey Gil, author of Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning: The Confucius Institute Project, offers his views on whether Chinese...
China cracks over private tutoring
The Chinese government has set up a new department to oversee the US$120 billion private tutoring industry in its latest crackdown on the country’s...
Student numbers tumble
Survey after survey shows the damage Covid has wreaked on the EFL industry
We first reported the (unsurprising) massive drop in English language students coming...
Study method
Tseng and colleagues searched the literature from 1995-2019 for studies on the effectiveness of study abroad programmes on language learning. They excluded studies that...
Virtually IATEFL
Spotlight on keynote speakers at this year’s conference
This year’s IATEFL Conference took place in June virtually, but that didn’t lessen the impact of the...
Asia closes ranks
The restrictions on who can attend international schools – and when – in a number of Asian countries are tightening, says Melanie Butler
A new...
