Correcting teachers’ preconceptions of corrective feedback
Inexperienced teachers hesitate to correct, especially explicitly, despite believing that students need corrective feedback, according to a Canadian study.
Ninety-nine pre-service ESL teachers were asked...
“Content must cease to be a slave to the language.”
Language classes shouldn’t be language led. CLIL shows us that concept and competences are key, argues Phil Ball
There’s an extract from an EL textbook...
Online lessons from Tesol
UK unis can learn from ELT says Melanie Butler
As British universities lobby the government to cover some of the £1 billion in costs of...
Making the grade in extensive reading
Matt Salusbury introduces the books on this year's ERF shortlist
This year’s crop of 17 shortlisted titles have just been announced for The Extensive Reading...
Making the most of morphemes
Morphemic regularity may help babies acquire concepts like number and gender
Research has long shown that, whatever their L1, infants learn words at much the...
Schools and universities shed staff as students shun courses overseas
According to the Unesco Institute of Statistics, the end of the first week in April saw 1.5 billion children out of school across the...
