Thursday, June 12, 2025

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ENACT app brings world cultures to classrooms

Free "Around the World Club" package from Newcastle University distributed to schools worldwide. Helping to integrate children from all backgrounds by providing interactive learning experiences about world cultures, activities, and...

British Council launches second year of Action Research programme

The British Council has launched the second year of its Action Research programme, awarding grants to thirteen new researchers. 

What’s the point of polite-isms?

Trinity College London reveals gap between recognising the importance of politeness strategies and implementing them in classroom settings. A...

Fluency sounds smoother with simple language, study shows

Researchers find that using everyday phrasal expressions boosts fluency perception more than rare phrases in foreign language speech.

Teach your children well

First language literacy skills enhance second language learning. Early enhancement of reading skills in Spanish translates to improved English...

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...

Study shows Brexit’s negative impact on UK language learning

The British Council’s annual language trends report has found that Brexit may be reducing the perceived value of foreign language courses. The study says that...
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