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...

Black teachers matter in British ELT

Racism has been rife in British EFL for two decades. There are signs of change but it may be too little too late, say...

BC to accredit online ELT

The British Council has extended its accreditation scheme for UK language centres to include live online courses. Accredited language centres will have to submit a...

First Person: In at the deep end

Isabel Davies recounts her first teaching experience – at an English-medium school in Hong Kong I first learned of TEFL from my older brother, who...

Noreen Caplen-Spence: Black Teachers Matter

Noreen Caplen-Spence shares her poems and thoughts with Ron Ragsdale If language is the tool of thought, James Joyce through Ulysses invented a way of thought And...

England’s EALs struggle with home-schooling

How is coronavirus home schooling working for children in England who have English as an Additional Language (EAL), and does it compare with the...

Help us do better on racism

Jodie Gray says it’s time to take a closer look at ELT industry attitudes and explains how English UK is leading the way Like so...
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