Sunday, February 2, 2025

IATEFL Special

IATEFL: it’s not over yet!

Did you attend IATEFL this year? Sadly, Brighton's glittering coast has come and gone and IATEFL is firmly in the rear-view mirror. If you were one of the lucky...

Xavier Gisbert: The man who put bilingual schools on the agenda

Melanie Butler grabs a coffee with Xavier Gisbert “I don’t believe every school should be bilingual. It would be...

A rising tide of change

From the classroom to the IATEFL conference hall the calls for fundamental change are growing say Melanie Butler...

Teach in China

Mark Krzanowski talks to Lisa Magloff about the challenges and opportunities on the EAP agenda at Chinese universities. Recent...

Top tips to reducing cognitive load in the beginner to pre-intermediate classroom

Constantly recycle vocabulary and grammar to establish long term memory and reduce cognitive load on working memory....

“Honey, I just blew up the coursebook.” Lindsay Clandfield switches channels

Where is the coursebook going and why is it going there? Melanie Butler talks to Lindsay Clandfield to find out. “So, you’re sitting down to...

On the agenda: Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield spoke to the Gazette about his plenary session at the 2019 IATEFL conference. “I was approached to do a plenary for IATEFL,...

The staffroom agenda

IATEFL may try to keep the agenda on what happens in the classroom, but inside every plenary session there’s a staffroom issue, argues Melanie...

Northern delights

As the North of England welcomes Iatefl 2019, Melanie Butler puts this ELT region on the agenda “A collection of northern cities sufficiently close to...

Iatefl 2018: Sussing out Sussex

The beautiful coastal county of Sussex offers some of the best English language learning opportunities in the UK, writes Melanie Butler This year’s Iatefl conference...
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