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Issue 472 - Sep 2020

Covid killed summer course status quo, says new St Edmund’s director

Mike Pengelly believes it’s time to change the traditional summer school business model This was the summer that summer school didn’t happen. Day camps did well with local kids in...

School Covid-19 cluster shakes Maltese ELT

A cluster of Covid-19 cases at a language school in Malta has kept the island’s industry firmly in...

Hamish Chalmers: Trusting the evidence

Ron Ragsdale talks to Hamish Chalmers, language education researcher and former international school teacher, about the power of...

The future belongs to under-16s

Alex Cann shares with Melanie Butler his plans to grow and diversify what IH London Young Learners can...

What price do you put on quality?

New Zealand’s ‘team of five million’ is doing a great job fighting Covid-19, and Kim Renner asks what...

Why international schools will weather the Covid storm

Matt Salusbury examines the potential long-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on international schools International schools are preparing to re- open in September, many with...

PronPack 3: Pronunciation Pairworks

Mark Hancock Hancock McDonald ELT ISBN 9780995757578 This is the third in a series of four complementary books focusing on pronunciation. This one contains information-gap activities for...

Big data reveals how L1 predicts L2 proficiency

How far does a language learner’s first language (L1) influence proficiency in a new language? An international study has tried to find out by...

Closures keep coming as UK ELT reopens

In mid-August, Thompkins Education Group announced that all five of its TEG English centres, including the recently opened Birmingham centre, had ceased trading. Another...

Mindset for IELTS: Student’s Book 1

Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781316640050 I like the flexibility of this exam preparation book. Teachers can follow each of the eight units by topic in a...

Foreign prisoners to teach English in Thai prisons

Some of the estimated 2000 foreign prisoners in Thai prisons could be mobilised to teach English to other prisoners as part of a new...
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