Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Features and Comment

TOEFL: Assessing the test

How does the new TOEFL Writing assess test-takers’ use of grammar? Joanna Buckle examines the test and gives her take The TOEFL has gone from being a test with an...

Global Scale of English 10 years on

As the Global Scale of English celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Mike Mayor, Senior Director for the GSE, reflects on its impact and considers how it can continue to support our teaching efforts in the future.

Policy, policy, policy: a glance back at 2024

Though it seems to have come and gone so quickly, 2024 is beginning to wrap itself up in...

British Council’s shared services in India: smart cost-cutting or cultural misstep?

Educator and journalist William Grice shares his experience with teacher recruitment through the British Council. Last year, I was...

English on the airwaves

Learning English on the go? Fabio Cerpelloni chats with ELTon nominee, Luke Thompson all about his English-learning podcast. Q:...

English or mother tongue in Indian education?

Chryselle D’Silva Dias investigates India’s complex medium of instruction policy In a bid to boost higher education in India, the recently introduced New Education Policy...

Laura Harmon: Advocating for the rights of international students in Ireland means valuing teachers too

Ron Ragsdale in conversation with Laura Harmon You’ve led a very politically charged life, twice running for a seat in the Seanad, as well as...

Online Teflers challenge self-employed status as union membership grows

TEFL Workers Union has submitted a legal claim on behalf of at least 15 UK-based EFL teachers against an online teaching entity that engaged...

Is Covid breaking the chains?

The fact that Eurocentres has gone into a voluntary arrangement, not exactly a liquidation but a way of protecting creditors’ money while a company...

Is hibernation the answer to a Covid Christmas?

Melanie Butler tries to sort out what's going on with school closures. Dominion School of English, at over 50 years old possibly one of the...

Fast-track your 12 to 16 year olds’ English language certification

English teacher Ana Isabel Vázquez talks about the new version of the Oxford Test of English designed specifically for younger students Introducing Ana and her...
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