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:...

Living Precariously

The conditions that can lead to poor mental health are ripe in English language teaching, argues Melanie Butler. Sometimes work cracks me up – in...

‘Regard it like an MOT test’

School inspections needn’t be scary, Ann Matsunaga tells Melanie Butler  Ann Matsunaga has had nearly every job in ELT, not to mention her time in...

EU special: Czeching it out

Declan Carey, an English teacher in Prague, gives you the low-down on teaching in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a fascinating country in...

Plug into the Digital zeitgeist

Digital tools for the classroom should be ‘quick and dirty’, focusing on four key areas, Thomas Strasser tells Melanie Butler An academic once told me...

An inspector calls

Paul Fear tells Melanie Butler about a new accreditation scheme aiming to raise standards outside of the English speaking world ‘A_ccrediting EFL courses is not...

Keep it all in the family

Melanie Butler speaks to one of the owners of a language school that has transformed people’s lives ‘CLAC has changed my life. I don’t do...
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