Monday, December 23, 2024

Issue 480 - May 2022

Minimum wage pay is leaching into year-round UK teaching posts

Minimum wage jobs are appearing in UK EFL even in year-round schools. The summer schools have long skated on thin ice when it comes to minimum wage (see opposite)...

Sounds like a good idea, but what’s the evidence?

Gill Ragsdale gathers answers from 30 years of phonics research Use of phonics can improve learning to read English...

This year’s IATFEL goes big in Belfast for its return to a face-to-face event

Come with educationalist Pete Sharma to take a sneak peek at some of the edtech exhibitors who will...

Getting the most from graded readers

Sue Leather explains the four essentials needed to set up your extensive reading programme No one disputes the benefits...

In memoriam of a great teacher

Teacher training colleague and close family friend Katy Salisbury remembers Alun Rees Alun Rees, the inspirational EL teacher and...

The new kids on the block

A look at the newest players in the test industry by Kat Bautista Recently emerging as alternatives to well-known tests such as the IELTS are...

Beyond Covid and Brexit

A reader suggests why else the UK’s ELT industry is declining With reference to your news piece, ‘Brexit bashes UK language schools’, on the EL...

IATEFL travels to Belfast for its annual International conference and ELT exhibition

For the first time in its 55-year history, the annual IATEFL International Conference will be heading to Belfast in May this year. It will also...

Language learning blocks

Teachers are using online games to engage students. Gerald Nikolai Smith finds out how It is a truth universally acknowledged that a classroom of young...

Learning through the unknown

From a pair of trainers to the Loch Ness monster, Wayne Trotman looks at unusual teaching tactics HISTORY’S MYSTERIES Created by Taylor Sap with Catherine...

Living on the edge

Teaching Chinese to chat builds university integration, says Melanie Butler The number of mainland Chinese students looking to enrol in UK universities is going up...
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