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Issue 464 - Mar/Apr 2019

Xavier Gisbert: The man who put bilingual schools on the agenda

Melanie Butler grabs a coffee with Xavier Gisbert “I don’t believe every school should be bilingual. It would be a disaster.” We journalists love people like Xavier Gisbert, mastermind of...

Australia mourns Aiia

Aiia Maasarwe was studying English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, when she was raped and murdered....

…as ICE rounds up TOEFL test cheats

Agents of US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) have arrested five US nationals of Chinese origin in connection...

Hundreds held in fake Uni sting…

The ‘University of Farmington’ in Michigan was closed at the end of January when a federal indictment was...

Mastering the art of teaching

What should be top of the agenda on every teacher training course? Melanie Butler asked a group of...

A rising tide of change

From the classroom to the IATEFL conference hall the calls for fundamental change are growing say Melanie Butler and Ron Ragsdale. This April, Harry Kuchah...

‘The English language has been creating new centres for centuries’

Point of View What do we mean by ‘native speaker of English,’ and who should set the standards, asks Rakesh Bhanot Without thinking too hard, imagine...

David Graddol: the man who saw the future of English

David Graddol, who died in March aged 66, was a one-man think tank who changed the way the world sees the English language and...

Using AR in ELT materials: a case study Could Augmented Reality transform ELT materials?

It is not yet a standard feature, but one publisher, as a proof of concept, has started to use AR in their newest catalogue. “We’re...

AR may intensify emotions in educational games

Olga Lantovou and George Fesakis from the University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece added augmented reality (AR) to a board game for young English...

Say that again? Translanguaging in Chinese Universities

Several translanguaging processes are common in bilingual Chinese-English university classes, according to a recent study by Weihong Wang, China university of Geosciences, Wuhan, China...
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