Issue 468 - Jan 2020
Japan postpones new tests
Education minister Koichi Hagiuda has postponed controversial plans to introduce private English tests – including Japan’s Eiken test and ETS’s Toefl – alternatives to...
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...
EF test hits headlines as sample size soars
November saw the publication of the ninth Education First Proficiency Index. Based on EF’s own online English test, the publication of the Index is...
What will English in the EU look like after Brexit?
Once British nationals leave EU institutions, Emma Seddon predicts that non-native speakers will start to own EU English as a lingua franca
At the time...
Talking Turkish ELT
Twenty-two Turkish teachers recently completed a course at Edinburgh College as part of their training to become master mentors for the ELT component of...
An oasis of data for research-hungry language teachers
Inge Alferink tells Gill Ragsdale about the OASIS Project
Oasis was launched in 2018 to address the obstacles teachers face in using research. How does...
