Tokyo invests in English
Tokyo is investing in its teenagers’ English and an exchange programme with overseas teenagers, reports The Mainichi, Japan’s national daily newspaper.
The city’s 2023 budget...
Add media literacy to your classroom
Concerned about fake news? Or just think that being able to discuss media literacy in your English classroom would take the teaching and learning...
Meaning more important than pronunciatilon
Your non-native English-speaking friend mispronounces words? Or their grammar is a bit wonky? Don’t be tempted to correct them, as you won’t be doing...
Valencia fails to pay its foreign teachers – again
Just before Christmas, 1.400 foreign English language teaching assistants in Valencia, Spain, who hadn’t paid since the school year began in October, were still...
More UK language centres gone
A further 10 language centres have been removed from the British Council accreditation lists since last September, bringing the total number which have closed...
One in four UK adults regret not speaking a second language
According to new research commissioned by the British Council, one in four UK adults wishes they had learned another language.
That’s 26% of those asked...
