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:...

Big names, big debts, big problems?

Branded language schools are closing across the English-speaking world. Melanie Butler examines why. What do Stafford House, Global Village and inlingua have in common? They are...

Class struggle and the corona virus

Language schools and teachers are fighting their own grounds as teaching moves online The language school industry in Malta is not happy with the teachers...

“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 an extract from an EL textbook...

Zoom to the future?

Across all sectors the UK’s language lockdown has sent learning online but there is still a future for schools, says Melanie Butler All over...

Get on the Thinking Train

Gavin Biggs talks to Ron Ragsdale about the new series from Helbling What led you to your ELT writing career? I have always wanted to...

Effective EAP

Diane Schmitt talks to the Gazette about NCUK’s recent effectiveness study What is NCUK? NCUK is a consortium of universities with a global network of...
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