Language schools seek support
Reporting on the All Party Parliamentary Group round table: Securing the Future of English Language Teaching in the UK after Covid
To set the scene,...
What’s in a name?
The arrest of a convicted British paedophile at a Spanish international school highlights a lurking danger
British law allows citizens the right to change their...
Can watching English videos erode a child’s mother tongue?
Routine exposure to digital sources of English improves English language learning in Icelandic children without compromising their mother tongue development, according to research from...
Vying for global domination
Jeffrey Gil, author of Soft Power and the Worldwide Promotion of Chinese Language Learning: The Confucius Institute Project, offers his views on whether Chinese...
China cracks over private tutoring
The Chinese government has set up a new department to oversee the US$120 billion private tutoring industry in its latest crackdown on the country’s...
Student numbers tumble
Survey after survey shows the damage Covid has wreaked on the EFL industry
We first reported the (unsurprising) massive drop in English language students coming...
