Friday, May 2, 2025

Features and Comment

TOEFL: Assessing the test

How does the new TOEFL Writing assess test-takers’ use of grammar? Joanna Buckle examines the test and gives her take The TOEFL has gone from being a test with an...

Global Scale of English 10 years on

As the Global Scale of English celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Mike Mayor, Senior Director for the GSE, reflects on its impact and considers how it can continue to support our teaching efforts in the future.

Policy, policy, policy: a glance back at 2024

Though it seems to have come and gone so quickly, 2024 is beginning to wrap itself up in...

British Council’s shared services in India: smart cost-cutting or cultural misstep?

Educator and journalist William Grice shares his experience with teacher recruitment through the British Council. Last year, I was...

English on the airwaves

Learning English on the go? Fabio Cerpelloni chats with ELTon nominee, Luke Thompson all about his English-learning podcast. Q:...

Native English speakers need to brush up on their language skills too

The international classroom has been an uneven playing field for too long. It’s time for change, argue Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn Alevizos According to a...

Lessons learned from lockdown learners

Flipped lessons and blended learning benefits those at home and in schools says international school teacher James McAleese of Gems Winchester What lessons can we...

Black teachers matter in British ELT

Racism has been rife in British EFL for two decades. There are signs of change but it may be too little too late, say...

First Person: In at the deep end

Isabel Davies recounts her first teaching experience – at an English-medium school in Hong Kong I first learned of TEFL from my older brother, who...

Noreen Caplen-Spence: Black Teachers Matter

Noreen Caplen-Spence shares her poems and thoughts with Ron Ragsdale If language is the tool of thought, James Joyce through Ulysses invented a way of thought And...

Sophia Howlett: Taking a holistic approach to teacher education

Dr Sophia Howlett of the School for International Training, Vermont, in conversation with Ron Ragsdale Your university education was in the UK and focussed on...
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