Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 471 - July 2020

TEFL Workers’ Union surveys UK teachers

Data from a London-based TEFL Workers’ Union survey of UK staff experiences of language schools’ responses to coronavirus has been shown to the Gazette pre-publication. Although the sample is...

Get to the point with UK visas

Matt Salusbury introduces the new points-based system and explains what level of English immigrants need to get into...

Paying attention to bilingual babies

Babies in bilingual homes adapt by switching attention more easily and more often, according to a study from...

Business Vocabulary in Use: Advanced

Third edition Bill Mascull Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781316628225 This solid 176-page resource book has a familiar format: the left-hand page contains...

English Australia founding member closes down

Sydney College of English (SCE), a founding member of the English Australia association, has closed down “due to...

Native English speakers need to brush up on their language skills too

The international classroom has been an uneven playing field for too long. It’s time for change, argue Zanne Gaynor and Kathryn Alevizos According to a...

Pearson hits the ground running as the race to re-open language testing takes off

English language testing ground to a halt as Covid-19 locked down the world. Freya Thomas Monk, Senior Vice President of English Assessment at Pearson,...

Unlocking SELTs

Matt Salusbury gives us the lowdown on Secure English Language Tests The test centres for SELTs (Secure English Language Tests) taken within the UK have...

ETpedia™: Teacher Training

500 ideas for teacher training in English language teaching Beth Melia-Leigh and Nicholas Northall Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN 9781913414160 This 268-page resource book provides ideas for...

Lessons learned from lockdown learners

Flipped lessons and blended learning benefits those at home and in schools says international school teacher James McAleese of Gems Winchester What lessons can we...

Be aware language learning coincides with awareness

Eye tracking study shows awareness is the key to language learning Second language learners need to be consciously aware of their learning in order to...
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