Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 470 - May 2020

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 to rate their agreement with...

“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...

Online lessons from Tesol

UK unis can learn from ELT says Melanie Butler As British universities lobby the government to cover some 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...

Making the most of morphemes

Morphemic regularity may help babies acquire concepts like number and gender Research has long shown that, whatever their L1,...

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...

Perspectives – Upper Intermediate Student’s Book

Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley (Series authors also include Daniel Barber, Amanda Jeffries and Lewis Lansford) National Geographic Learning ISBN: 9781337277181 In a world of fake news,...

British Council partners US Kazakhstan course

Matt Salusbury talks to Ben Grey about the British Council’s English for Journalists course Why did the US Embassy choose the British Council as a...

Get on the Thinking Train

Gavin Biggs talks to Ron Ragsdale about the new series from Helbling What led you to your ELT writing career? I have always wanted to...

Effective EAP

Diane Schmitt talks to the Gazette about NCUK’s recent effectiveness study What is NCUK? NCUK is a consortium of universities with a global network of...

Is your journey really necessary?

The coronavirus has closed education down everywhere, but when the world opens up, it is educational travel which is most at risk, say Melanie...
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