Saturday, May 3, 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:...

Is your journey really necessary?

The coronavirus has closed education down everywhere, but when the world opens up, it is educational travel which is most at risk, say Melanie...

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...

“We should start by putting ourselves first, not our students”

Students suffer when teachers are stressed out, argues Lara Statham We always hear that we should be putting our students first. And I believe that...

Josefina Tinajero: Improving the outcomes for Latino learners

Ron Ragsdale talks to Dr Josefina Villamil Tinajero You were born in Mexico and came to Texas at the age of five with your family....

Is the EFL model broken in the UK and the US?

Melanie Butler gives her view After 30 years reporting on English language teaching, I am accustomed to waves of school closures in one English-speaking country...

Putting the whole of Ireland on the map

Melanie Butler tours the island’s EFL locations In the last decade, Irish EFL has spread out from its three original centres: Dublin, the youngest capital...
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