Monday, December 23, 2024

General News

Taiwan news

The Taiwanese government has announced that it hopes to increase the number of ‘English only’ state schools by 25%, bringing to 257 the number of English medium schools expected...

Fighting with English

The West has been providing Ukraine with military aid in various forms, from Leopard tanks coming from Germany...

UK union dispute settled after protests

A dispute between British Studies Centres (BSC) and the TEFL Workers Union in the UK on behalf of...

AP takes French leave of its senses

The AP style book, seen as the bible for US journalists looking to improve their writing, made a...

Teacher shortage hits Korea

The number of native speakers heading to Korea to teach English has plummeted to one-third of its pre-pandemic...

David Graddol: the man who saw the future of English

David Graddol, who died in March aged 66, was a one-man think tank who changed the way the world sees the English language and...

Minds synch in L2, but mind the empathy gap

When two people talk to each other, their brain activities synchronise. However, a new study by Perez et al at the Basque Centre on...

Brexit bonus for ELT, but on a budget

In the run-up to Brexit, the British government has launched a series of initiatives designed to attract more international students to the UK, and...

EAL strategies to go Dutch?

A Dutch and British research project aims to help primary teachers with EAL students The results of an innovative research project to be published this...

Global perspective

The Gazette editorial team’s selection of ELT news from around the world USA: The state of Arizona has passed a law ending the requirement of four...

STOP PRESS

British Council staff in Italy have taken strike action in protest against proposals put forward by the Council in February to make 19 staff...
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