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UK: In January, the government succeeded in defeating an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill that would have required the UK to negotiate “continuing...
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...
Don’t judge a learner by their label: US teacher expectations of ELLs
Label, not language level, may determine teachers’ perceptions, study finds
Labelling US school pupils as English Language Learners (ELLs) leads to lower teachers’ expectations, except...
London teachers get payout after direct action
A group of EFL teachers at a Central London language school who were made redundant on 20 December have won an “enhanced redundancy package,”...
How learning Chinese improved Ernie’s English
A Chinese Artificial intelligence (AI) platform has improved AI understanding of both Chinese and English, reports Yu Sun and colleagues from Baidu Inc., Beijing.
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Teachers trapped in Wuhan as evacuation ends
As we go to press, the first foreign teachers flown home from Wuhan are leaving quarantine and Western governments have announced the end of...
