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:...

The sun sets on two ELT empires

The cosy hegemony of the US and the UK is ending. Melanie Butler and Ron Ragsdale examine why Shortly after the Second World War, representatives...

“Our house is always open”

IH London CEO Mark Rendell tells Melanie Butler why the future of ELT is innovation As CEO of International House London and in-coming chair of...

Teach in Turkey

Umair Ahsan shares his experience of teaching in the ever-fascinating country of Turkey Why Turkey? Turkey remains a popular destination for English language teaching, and there...

Reading the academic rankings . . .

Melanie Butler explains the QS ranking system and how we arrived at our listing criteria At the EL Gazette, we do not rank Masters’ degrees...

Leading in Linguistics and Language

Melanie Butler takes a look at the top schools for Master’s degrees in Linguistics and Language Most ELT-related Masters come under Applied Linguistics, Education or...

Anne O’Keeffe: Learning a second language helps teachers

Ron Ragsdale, in conversation with Dr Anne O’Keeffe As a child in Ireland you will have had to study Irish as a second language in...
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