Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Issue 484

      On-line invigilation can beat the bots

      Not many people will have missed the recent hype regarding the impact of ChatGPT on the education sector since its launch in November. It is a debate which the...

      CULTIVATING TEACHER WELLBEING

      Kate Brierton and Christina Gkonou Cambridge University Press and Assessment, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-108-93286 In his preface, Cambridge Educational Management...

      Testing by numbers

      The numbers from the assessment bodies, as exam boards are now usually known, shows the trendline going upwards,...

      Why Perfectly Spoken is best in class

      Perfectly Spoken is an award winning, fully customisable English language learning platform. Over five years have been invested...

      Forty-four years and counting

      Henry Rodgers tells the full story of Italy’s foreign language lettori and their historic fight against discrimination On May...

      Growth mindset

      Can a growth mindset be harnessed to improve academic progress? Students with a more growth-oriented mindset do better on an academic writing course, but reading...

      What the Welsh tell us about reading

      Biliteracy needs to be taught, especially to dyslexics, Melanie Butler discovers It’s hardly news that dyslexics may face problems learning English. The case of Alex...

      Teaching EFL online due to Covid

      A study in China reflects common themes teachers faced around the world Chinese EFL teachers describe common challenges faced when the Covid pandemic necessitated moving...

      A classicist’s take on the Trinity Cert

      Language learner and teacher Zoë Parrish took a four-week online Trinity CertTESOL course with EBC. Here’s what it was like I may not be your...

      Leaning into PISA’s language test

      In 2025 the OECD is launching its Foreign Language Assessment (FLA) as part of its famous suite of PISA tests. Designed by Cambridge University...

      Linguistics and grammar – time for a divorce?

      Ninety years ago, a Danish academic wrote: “It is important to keep the two concepts time and tense strictly apart”. Unfortunately the writer was...
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