Correcting teachers’ preconceptions of corrective feedback
Inexperienced teachers hesitate to correct, especially explicitly, despite believing that students need corrective feedback, according to a Canadian study.
Ninety-nine pre-service ESL teachers were asked...
Making the most of morphemes
Morphemic regularity may help babies acquire concepts like number and gender
Research has long shown that, whatever their L1, infants learn words at much the...
Schools and universities shed staff as students shun courses overseas
According to the Unesco Institute of Statistics, the end of the first week in April saw 1.5 billion children out of school across the...
British Council partners US Kazakhstan course
Matt Salusbury talks to Ben Grey about the British Council’s English for Journalists course
Why did the US Embassy choose the British Council as a...
Drawing out the meanings of collocations
Students learn verb-noun collocations better by exploring the meaning of verbs and prepositions via drawings they then explain to their peers, according to a...
News In Brief
CHINA: A recent survey of Chinese students currently overseas found that 87 per cent were worried about being infected by Covid-19, followed by impact on...
