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:...

Putting out the flames of culture wars

Have we just hit peak language wars? Just when we thought it was safe to go back down the pub, the language wars have again...

English in the Mediterranean – the secrets of Malta’s success?

It has been a truism for some years that Ireland has the most English Language schools per capita of any English language destination. Outside...

Does size matter?

With small multilingual countries steaming ahead can the old superpowers keep up? The summer is upon us, and the world of ELT is returning to...

Linguistics and grammar – time for a divorce?

Ninety years ago, a Danish academic wrote: “It is important to keep the two concepts time and tense strictly apart”. Unfortunately the writer was...

Native speakerism: hiding behind privilege

It’s time discrimination was shown the door, says English teacher Meri Maroutian The Italian Ministry of Education claims that English as a mother tongue can...

The changing world of English teaching

Five ways the ELT industry is evolving, according to Beatrice Segura Harvey If you had been asked five years ago what you thought the EFL...
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