Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 468 - Jan 2020

Does learning languages open your mind?

Learning more languages makes you more flexible, open-minded and more likely to take the initiative in social situations, according to Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London) and Elouise Botes...

Teacher’s Pet

You’ve heard about the ‘flipped classroom’ but how about a ’flipped CELTA’? That’s the future of training, according...

Reading the academic rankings . . .

Melanie Butler explains the QS ranking system and how we arrived at our listing criteria At the EL Gazette,...

Leading in Linguistics and Language

Melanie Butler takes a look at the top schools for Master’s degrees in Linguistics and Language Most ELT-related Masters...

Clil programme covers 1,000 Kazakh teachers

A mass teacher-training project, involving more than 1,000 Kazakh teachers of science and IT in state schools, was...

Searching for free research

Gill Ragsdale’s guide to finding the right research A great deal of research is carried out on language learning and teaching. This could help teachers...

ETpedia: Vocabulary

500 Ideas and Activities for Teaching Vocabulary Stacey H. Hughes, Fiona Mauchline and Julie Moore Pavilion, ISBN: 9781912755264 Vocabulary is central to language teaching. I welcome this...

…the subject matters

Melanie Butler unveils the top ELT-related Masters in Education and English departments British ELT postgraduate provision has strength in depth. It boasts the number one...

Top at teaching

Melanie Butler looks at UK University Language Centres Why choose to study English at the Language Centre of a British University? Simply because, on average,...

Teach In Teacher Training

Lisa Magloff looks at the ins and outs of becoming a teacher trainer There are several ways to progress as a teacher in the private...

The higher my level, the more I blame my teacher

Personal responsibility for failure decreases as adult Spanish students progress from beginner to intermediate level, report Manuel Soriano-Ferrer and Elena Alonso-Blanco in a study...
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