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:...

Xavier Gisbert: The man who put bilingual schools on the agenda

Melanie Butler grabs a coffee with Xavier Gisbert “I don’t believe every school should be bilingual. It would be a disaster.” We journalists love people...

Mastering the art of teaching

What should be top of the agenda on every teacher training course? Melanie Butler asked a group of former Masters students from the UCLan...

Scaling up with Sheffield

Richard Simpson shares with Melanie Butler the secrets of running a mega-language centre powered by academic attitudes What was the situation like when you first...

We know what to do this summer

NACE may be the new kid on the summer school bloc but its academic expertise may surprise you. Take four summer schools, three of them...

Class struggle on the agenda?

Just as we were going to press on this IATEFL issue, a story broke: staff at the British Council in Italy were striking over...

Inclusion is good for everyone

Incorporating inclusive practice into the classroom does not need to be difficult Most teachers will have heard the term ‘inclusive practice’ as an ideal to...
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