Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 481 - July 2022

From rankings to real estate

Where does your university come in the REF and where will Ireland put all those language students banging on its door? Just what is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and...

A new approach from Cambridge

Francesca Woodward, Global Managing Director for English at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, explains why it was the...

Check out the research

All the rankings in this feature are based on the results of the REF 2021 and all the...

Online scam manipulates English teachers living abroad

Polygraph, a Berlin-based company that investigates cyber-crime gangs, has identified a new scam which is manipulating English teachers...

Putting security first

Janet Garcia, president of PSI, which runs the Skills for English test, explains what sets it apart from...

Watch, listen and read

How English-captioned videos stimulate learning Learning new vocabulary from videos is improved with full captions (glossed, if possible) combined with pre-viewing activities, as demonstrated in...

Professional development

It’s as easy as ABC, says Abeer Okaz What is meant by professional development? Professional development (PD) is any form by which teachers seek to increase...

Mixed motives for language learning?

Melanie Butler talks to Hayo Reinders It was a white paper from Oxford University Press called ‘Using Technology to Motivate Learners’ that first bought Hayo...

Visa aid

A pioneering partnership between Pearson and Talent Beyond Boundaries is helping skilled refugees settle in new countries, as Sasha Hampson explains Russia’s recent invasion of...
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