Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 468 - Jan 2020

Teacher’s Pet

You’ve heard about the ‘flipped classroom’ but how about a ’flipped CELTA’? That’s the future of training, according to International House (IH) London. As those of us who nearly flipped...

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,...

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...

New UK government, new SELTs

One of the first acts of the UK Government, elected in December, was to appoint providers for the...

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...

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...

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...
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