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Issue 470 - May 2020

Research News

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...
Point of View

“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...
What Next: Online Masters Listing

Online lessons from Tesol

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

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...
Research News

Making the most of morphemes

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

Get dramatic in the (virtual) classroom

Resources Walton Burns Walton Burns -
Walton Burns talks about how to use play scripts to teach pragmatics – even online! Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage and all the...

Integrating IT is key

What Next: Effective Strategies Graham Stanley Graham Stanley -
Graham Stanley examines the findings on using learning technology In the world of language teaching and learning, context is king, and it was with this...

Drawing out the meanings of collocations

Research News Gill Ragsdale Gill Ragsdale -
Students learn verb-noun collocations better by exploring the meaning of verbs and prepositions via drawings they then explain to their peers, according to a...

News In Brief

News in Brief Matt Salusbury Matt Salusbury -
CHINA: A recent survey of Chinese students currently overseas found that 87 per cent were worried about being infected by Covid-19, followed by impact on...

Bridge to the future?

Ron Ragsdale Ron Ragsdale -
Online is on the rise says Anna Williams of US training giant Bridge.edu You launched your new practicum – or teaching practice – for online...

Zooming in on teacher training

What Next: New Technology Melanie Butler Melanie Butler -
Has the coronavirus crisis finally cracked the online teaching practice conundrum, asks Melanie Butler London is in lock down. Colleges, universities and private language schools...
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