Special Features - E L Gazette

Good CLIL Hunting

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Why go overseas for a CLIl training course? Melanie Butler explains There is no mystery about why an increasing number of state school systems across...

Top Ten for Teens and Tinies

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Melanie Butler finds the best UK schools for groups of young learners Groups of young learners coming to the UK for a short course outside...

A Second Helping of Language

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Melanie Butler looks at life after the world has learned English The market for English language may still be growing. But according to Bonard researcher...

Brexit Bumps But No Bust

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Excel English in Muswell Hill, one of London’s top-ranking schools and a member of the prestigious TEN association, has closed its doors after over...

Homestay Horrors

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Melanie Butler counts the cost of underpaying host families The Chinese agent was upset. Two teenage clients who wanted to share a room had been...

News from the Nursery

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Melanie Butler looks at the market for tots From next year, infants in Madrid state nurseries will be taught English using a new methodology, and...

Clowning Around: Adding Spontaneity to Training

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Alan Maley and Adrian Underhill - 31st October 2019

Adrian Underhill and Alan Maley put spontaneity on the training agenda In our earlier, short article (EL Gazette Issue 465, page 15), we raised the...

Inside the Independent School Classroom

Issue 467 - Nov 2019 Melanie Butler - 31st October 2019

Melanie Butler investigates the ELT methods used in Britain’s boarding schools When you talk to teachers in British boarding schools about teaching academic subjects in...

…as boarding schools get bounce from Brexit

Special Features Melanie Butler - 10th June 2019

Demand by EU students, especially from Spain and Germany, for places at Irish boarding school are soaring, according to a recent article in the...

Is European ELT facing a continental shift?

Special Features Melanie Butler - 10th June 2019

Demography is the real danger, says Melanie Butler The mood in European EFL is generally glum. And it’s not just Brexit. I’ve been getting e-mails...