Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 465 - May/Jun 2019

Brits behind as book trade booms?

McGraw Hill Education and Cengage Learning are to merge, according to the Financial Times. The new company, which will include National Geographic Learning, will have projected cash earnings of...

Making strides with metacognition

Gill Ragsdale explains the power of thinking aloud ‘We do not learn from experience…. we learn from reflecting on...

Everything you need to know about EFL but they were afraid to tell you…

Wayne Trotman welcomes the new, complete, evidence-based guide THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Edited...

…as boarding schools get bounce from Brexit

Demand by EU students, especially from Spain and Germany, for places at Irish boarding school are soaring, according...

Is European ELT facing a continental shift?

Demography is the real danger, says Melanie Butler The mood in European EFL is generally glum. And it’s not...

ETPedia™ Grammar

500 ideas and activities for teaching grammar Daniel Barber and Ceri Jones Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN: 978-1-912-75502-8 This hefty, 242-page resource book contains a mixture of...

Don’t dub and improve your English

Countries which use subtitles score higher on tests, according to European researchers Watching English-language films and TV with subtitles rather than being dubbed may increase...

Talking to Torquay about young learners

Kevin McNally, Managing Director of Torquay International School tells Melanie Butler why Torquay is the ideal location for young learners I never intended to get...

Japanese chain slashes one-to-one school sites

The Coco Juku English language school chain closed 51 of its 72 schools across Japan on 31 March. The chain’s owner, the Nichii Gakkan...

Serious sport, serious learning

Tapping into teenagers’ passions can be key, says Melanie Butler If Southern Europe is switching to academic summer courses, students from Northern Europe remain more...

Politics plays a part in Spanish CLIL

Did you stay up all night? We’re not talking about the elections to the European parliament. We’re referring to the elections for the Corts...
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