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July 2022

Germany’s English courses help push it to the top

The country topping the list of the best European countries to study abroad in is Germany, according to website worldakkam.com.  The reasons for this are that it borders 11 other...

Chinese scammers target EF parents

A social media post claiming all EF schools in China were about to close and asking parents to...

A new dictionary in the works

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English is to be published by 2025 from a partnership between the...

UK Supreme Court sides with zero hours teachers

EFL teachers in the UK are likely to be entitled to higher rales of holiday pay than they have...

English teachers’ exodus from Hong Kong

Hong Kong is seeing a massive increase in teachers leaving their jobs – as many as 50% in...

Ireland’s student numbers have outgrown the number of beds available

Engineer Amanda Nogueira was one of 30 Brazilians studying English in Ireland who spent two months sleeping in the basement bar of a Dublin...

Blended learning can improve outcomes, especially for English language learners

Blended learning is better than regular classroom or wholly online learning, especially for English language learners, according to a review by a team from...

Understanding the REF

A crash course in what it means, why it’s important and how to use it, by Melanie Butler The Research Excellence Framework (REF) for 2021...

Visa tough times

Delays and backlogs are becoming the post-Covid norm for language students dealing with immigration services around the world, as Melanie Butler reports Ireland is the...

There is no up

Self-perceptions of ELT teachers in the Republic of Ireland, by Deborah Tobin The global expansion of English has led to an increased international demand for...

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...
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