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:...

Inequality and discrimination in Vietnam’s private sector

Examining the marginalisation of Nnests and Nests of colour. Vietnam’s EFL industry has witnessed significant growth in recent years, fuelled by a booming private education...

The rise of the teacherpreneur

How can a teacher stretch their limits outside the traditional teaching box? As more and more people turn away from traditional work to the so-called...

TESOL in the Philippines

Prior to the pandemic, Filipinos were being employed as English language teachers in the Philippines, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as South...

The setup to a bad punchline

David Petrie tells of the ongoing battle for fair treatment in Italy and Spain. The 3 May 2023 edition cover of Panorama, owned by a...

Edinburgh’s EFL revival

Teacher and journalist, Charlie Ellis, reports on Edinburgh’s COVID recovery. Following the twin blows of COVID and Brexit there are signs of renewed life in...

Melanie Butler, in conversation with British Council’s Mark Walker

”We are really asking questions,” says Mark Walker about the British Council’s new report on the “Future of English.” It is not – the...
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