Friday, April 25, 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:...

Spontaneity: the vital ingredient

Like actors, musicians and clowns, teachers should learn to improvise, according to Alan Maley & Adrian Underhill One topic which never gets discussed in ELT...

Talking to Torquay about young learners

Kevin McNally, Managing Director of Torquay International School tells Melanie Butler why Torquay is the ideal location for young learners I never intended to get...

Growing up with clarity

Elinor Stokes tells Melanie Butler about life in a digital ELT family You grew up in a TEFLing family, your father, Andrew, is a former...

We know it makes sense

Multisensory learning benefits students of all abilities and is an excellent way for teachers to introduce inclusive practises, says Anne Margaret Smith Inclusion’ and ‘inclusive...

As a model for learners, RP is outdated and needs to be replaced

Is it time to dump Received Pronunciation? Most British people don’t use it any more and yet we keep teaching it. Perhaps we could...

…and they’re off!

But the field for the 2019 ELTon awards is full of unfamiliar faces The judges for this year’s British Council ELT Innovation Award have eschewed...
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