Council teams up with NILE to solve trainer training trap
The launch of any professional award in teacher education is newsworthy. The path to becoming an ELT trainer has never been straightforward.
However, the launch...
STOP PRESS
British Council staff in Italy have taken strike action in protest against proposals put forward by the Council in February to make 19 staff...
Behind every great destination there’s always a great trainer
Bristol, as we report on page 16, is the best place to study English in the UK based on British Council inspection results. But,...
Babies can tell a hum isn’t human language
Twelve-month old babies understand that foreign languages are not just noise, according to a study by Athena Vouloumanos at New York University.
Babies selectively attend...
Practise pronunciation, improve listening
Teaching pronunciation to learners of Spanish as a foreign language improved intelligibility and comprehension in listening tasks, reports Elizabeth Kissling from the University of...
Values added course books? How the topics we teach have changed in the last twenty years
Since the 1990s, ELT textbooks have increasingly embodied neoliberal assumptions, claims Keith Copley’s qualitative analysis of popular and influential ELT courses from the last...
