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:...

Guruism can be detrimental to your professional health

After the initial feeling of awe over an inspiring idea, Paula Rebolledo says we need to think how it can be adapted rather than...

Teach in: Teaching Online

El Gazette looks at teaching online as an alternative to in-person teaching, and the best places to look for online work Between the pandemic and...

Time to go back to the school room

As adult language schools crash across the world, Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler argue that Covid-19 has served to speed up inevitable market changes Perhaps...

Hamish Chalmers: Trusting the evidence

Ron Ragsdale talks to Hamish Chalmers, language education researcher and former international school teacher, about the power of randomised trials An Oxford Professor once told...

A focus on monolingualism short-changes the needs of students

International schools education driven by profit overlooks the importance of mother tongue-based multilingual education, argues Dr. Robert Phillipson Some of the information in this Point...

Covid-secure at a Trinity SELT Centre

If you are taking an English exam for immigration purposes in the UK, you need to go to a Secure English Language Test (SELT)...
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