Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Features and Comment

What does English UK’s 2025 student statistics report tell us?  

UK ELT held steady in a year of global uncertainty and turbulence, according to the latest annual figures published by English UK.    English UK’s student statistics for 2024 show overall...

ACS International Schools: Let’s reshape how we view success

ACS International Schools releases statement on curriculum reform.

TOEFL: Assessing the test

How does the new TOEFL Writing assess test-takers’ use of grammar? Joanna Buckle examines the test and gives...

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...

Class struggle on the agenda?

Just as we were going to press on this IATEFL issue, a story broke: staff at the British Council in Italy were striking over...

Inclusion is good for everyone

Incorporating inclusive practice into the classroom does not need to be difficult Most teachers will have heard the term ‘inclusive practice’ as an ideal to...

‘The English language has been creating new centres for centuries’

Point of View What do we mean by ‘native speaker of English,’ and who should set the standards, asks Rakesh Bhanot Without thinking too hard, imagine...

VISA TYPES FOR TEACHING IN CHINA

Acquiring a Visa to teach EAP in China is becoming more and more complex. In the last two years, new restrictions were brought in...

Teach in China

Mark Krzanowski talks to Lisa Magloff about the challenges and opportunities on the EAP agenda at Chinese universities. Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented growth...

Top tips to reducing cognitive load in the beginner to pre-intermediate classroom

Constantly recycle vocabulary and grammar to establish long term memory and reduce cognitive load on working memory. Use known vocabulary with new grammar...
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