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February 2022

The Michigan English Test goes live

Michigan Language Assessment launched MET Digital to provide test-takers and accepting institutions with global access to a Michigan certificate of English proficiency Michigan Language Assessment recently accomplished an important milestone:...

An English summer

Our special supplement will help you decide where to get the best English instruction the UK has to...

Using the silver screen

A film is worth a thousand visual aids, says ELT teacher Rick Haill Scene 1 A 15-year-old schoolboy fully...

“I ain’t done nothing wrong…”

Where’s the sense in double negatives? The use of double negation in English persists despite being counterintuitive, suggests a...

The UK’s English language teaching industry lags on diversity

After doing a survey of 30 UK English language schools’ websites, I found that, out of 133 teachers...

Empowering remote learning in remote regions

The future of international training contracts is increasingly online, but providers need to plan for problems with internet connectivity, so believes UK training specialists...

Teacher sues over native-speakerism

“We are only allowed to hire native speaker. I am so sorry as your CV is really interesting.” Rachel Tsateri received this message after applying...

Disappearing schools cause confusion

The figures tell the story. In January 2020, the Gazette database listed 478 British Council accredited language schools. Today it contains just 401. Two...

Boarding schools come up trumps

These institutions attract the best because they know what they’re doing, says Melanie Butler The British Council accredited boarding schools have survived the pandemic better...

A look at English instruction in Egypt

One size is never going to fit all, says educationalist Abeer Okaz For quite some time, the Egyptian Ministry of Education and Higher Education has...

Non-native speakerism has had its day

Two inlingua schools, one in Germany and one in Italy, are among the 80% of schools in continental Europe no longer using the term...
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