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Issue 466 - Sep 2019

Set Your Mind to the Test

Teaching IELTS is a long way from the idealised world of CELTA. It needs a different approach, Greg Archer tells Melanie Butler “The communicative approach just doesn’t work in IELTS...

Is the right brain key to better language learning?

The right brain hemisphere is more important for language learning than we thought, a team of researchers at...

In summary

Melanie Butler explains how we calculate the rankings The EL Gazette rankings are based entirely on the summary statements...

Murphy is Still the Answer to a Teacher’s Prayer

Wayne Trotman looks at the latest English Grammar in Use ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE 5TH EDITION Edited by Raymond...

UK Language Centre Rankings 2019

The EL Gazette Centres of Excellence for 2019 (the top 150 language centres in the UK) are reported...

How to Cook Up an English Class

Gill Ragsdale gives seven top tips for teaching English with food 1 Collect students’ recipes Before introducing a recipe, test your students’ knowledge of food nouns...

News in Brief

TANZANIA: Tanzania will retain English as “the language of instruction in schools,” Prof Joyce Ndalichako, minister of education for the East African country, confirmed....

“Leave now,” says lawyer, as China cracks down on foreign teachers

“DO NOT teach in China” says American lawyer Dan Harris. Writing in his award-winning blog https://www.chinalawblog.com/, the international law expert recommends expatriates currently teaching...

US cuts English in shelters

The Trump administration is cancelling English language classes, recreational activities and legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children staying in federally-contracted shelters. Children found illegally entering...

“In the last year I earned £16,756. It’s an insult.”

British EFL teachers are being forced into poverty argues Rhiannon Carter Money in UK ELT industry is bad. I don’t think this is news to...

Managing Your Way to the Top

ELC Eastbourne is the second school that John Veale has taken up the EL Gazette rankings. He tells Melanie Butler the secrets behind his...
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