Features and Comment

2025 Issues

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...

2025 Issues

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.

Comment

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...

Comment

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...

Interviews

English on the airwaves

Learning English on the go? Fabio Cerpelloni chats with ELTon nominee, Luke Thompson all about his English-learning podcast. Q:...

Mixed motives for language learning?

Interviews

Melanie Butler - 5th July 2022

Melanie Butler talks to Hayo Reinders It was a white paper from Oxford University Press called ‘Using Technology to Motivate Learners’ that first bought Hayo...

In memoriam of a great teacher

Teacher Training

Katy Salisbury - 3rd May 2022

Teacher training colleague and close family friend Katy Salisbury remembers Alun Rees Alun Rees, the inspirational EL teacher and teacher educator, died aged 83 on...