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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...

Real issues for online teacher training

A review signposts issues for both instructors and students The pros and cons of online TEFL training are outlined in a review by Dong-shin Shin...

Can language schools compete in rush to CLIL?

The two largest markets for UK ELT are moving away from general English summer courses and towards academic courses in English. The growth of...

When English Medium is the message

English as a Medium of Instruction is right at the top of the agenda for Trevor Grimshaw. He tells Melanie Butler why. When Trevor first...

On the agenda: Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield spoke to the Gazette about his plenary session at the 2019 IATEFL conference. “I was approached to do a plenary for IATEFL,...

The staffroom agenda

IATEFL may try to keep the agenda on what happens in the classroom, but inside every plenary session there’s a staffroom issue, argues Melanie...

Northern delights

As the North of England welcomes Iatefl 2019, Melanie Butler puts this ELT region on the agenda “A collection of northern cities sufficiently close to...
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