Thursday, April 24, 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:...

The argument against exams

Are exams really a necessary evil? Fabio Cerpelloni speaks to teacher and YouTuber, Christian Saunders, to get his take. Q: Christian, you have some strong...

Enhancing English education in Thailand’s refugee camps

Teacher William Grice explores the challenges of teaching English to refugees in the context of the ongoing crisis in Myanmar. I recently came across an...

Asking the right question: teaching reading to bilingual learners

Phonics has, and continues to be, be a point of contention for many in the field of ELT. Professors Ester de Jong and Socorro...

Embracing English learners in a Science of Reading era

What are the socio-cultural barriers to reading? Experts in literacy, Martha Hernandez and Laurie Olsen discuss the way forward for emergent bilingual children. In 2020,...

Inclusion and exclusion in EdTech

How can EdTech create opportunities for those from disadvantaged backgrounds? We chat with Adam Edmett, Head of EdTech Innovation at the British Council, to...

Spillover

How can management and leadership affect teacher morale? Teacher trainer and English language expert, Giovanni Licata explains how ‘spillover’ could be to blame for...
- Advertisment -