Friday, June 13, 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...

Prediction

The crystal ball method of IELTS preparation. Students preparing for the high-stakes IELTS exam, by focussing on accessing and preparing predicted answers, increase exam proficiency...

Still hanging in there

Test management versus test wiseness in repeated IELTS takers. Test management, but not test wiseness, improves IELTS scores, providing some support for the validity of...

The grammar discovery approach

In this article, teacher Joanna Buckle delves into the grammar discovery approach. But what is it and does it work? One nineties development in English...

Phonics and the battle for literacy: experts cross pens in the ‘Reading Wars’!

Should we be using phonics in the classroom? Research editor, Gill Ragsdale weighs up the evidence… Round 1: a closer look at the evidence A thorough...

L1 in multilingual classrooms

In this article, Hamish Chalmers analyses the evidence for multilingual classrooms. Attitudes to the use of L1 in the L2 classroom is an area of...

Authorship

Projects with purpose: writing for children boosts language learning and wellbeing. The experience of authorship in a book project boosts wellbeing, self-efficacy, and motivation of...
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