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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...

Drop in US numbers hit IEPs, language schools

The Intensive English Program (IEP) sector, which includes pre-university intensive English language courses in the US, continues to shrink, according to 2018 figures released...

Irish mandate new EFL employment rules

MEI Ireland, which represents the majority of Irish language schools, has ruled itself out of talks on new employment standards for EFL, the Gazette...

Great teachers make great schools

If you score highly on ‘Teaching and Learning’, you’re likely to be in our rankings, finds Melanie Butler “Teacher quality predicts instructional quality and student...

Stars and start-ups storm the ELTons

This year’s ELTon awards was hosted by the utterly irrepressible Benjamin Zephaniah, author, playwright, Rasta Dub poet and British National Treasure. It was a night...

At home in the English Home Counties

Melanie Butler discovers the allure of England’s Home Counties and its EFL destinations Imagine a ‘typically’ English town: a neat, green. safe place with ancient...

Summer Sums up St Edmund’s Philosophy

It’s all about the whole child, Lee Hawkes tells Melanie Butler “EFL teachers tend to be solitary. When I was teaching in London, I moved...
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