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:...

Innovation is our motivation

New technology is providing the key to accurate and learner-focused language testing, PeopleCert CEO Byron Nicolaides tells Melanie Butler You really are multilingual: a Greek,...

Two Wimbledon aces

Jane Dancaster and Fiona Dunlop of Wimbledon School of English explain how they became the first school in the UK to achieve a perfect...

Point of View: No more funny business?

Teachers Sarah Priestley and Tom Flaherty call on those working in the ELT industry to re-consider the role of ‘fun’ in the classroom Dear ELT...

Don’t be caught napping over sleep-in pay

Melanie Butler examines how the outcome of an Appeals Court case could have serious implications for employers of staff who sleep on the premises Summer...

It’s Summer and everyone is having fun. Aren’t they?

Summertime is here, ELLs are making headlines and some of the oldest shibboleths are being challenged, Melanie Butler writes. Well, Betsy DeVos certainly seems to...

‘Staff and students know this school is different’

IH London prides itself on its sense of community, a commitment to teachers and the quality of education it provides, its new management team...
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