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CONTENTS
OCTOBER 2017
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Editor’s letter
5 International education and ELT need more Englishlanguagegazette
female role models, says Irena Barker.
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news
Upfront
6 Could we be closer to an end to foreign
nurses’ Ielts anguish?
Upfront
7 From ‘sea turtles’ to ‘sea weed’ – Chinese
doubts over foreign degrees.
World
8 Quebec admits ‘grilled cheese’ to its list of
permitted anglicisms, and other events. 16
Research
10 Could native speakers be the key to
26
foreign language acquisition in babies?
features & comment
Point of view
16 ELT and international education have
a ‘moral obligation’ to encourage women into reviews & resources
management, argues Ella Tyler. Review
Editor-at-large
to read a book about classroom anxiety.
18 Don’t make assumptions about your 24 Wayne Trotman puts his worries aside
students ‘learning culture’ based on simple
regional stereotypes, warns Melanie Butler. Korea
26 Top things to consider if you are
People teaching Korean students.
20 ELTons’ lifetime achievement award
winner Ronald Carter talks about the 10 Supplement
impact of social media on language and
grammar teaching in schools.
Universities
Special
Teach in...
22 Matt Salusbury discovers the delights
of Poland. El Gazette explores the rise of the university
English language centre and the growth of
There’s English-taught bachelor’s degrees.
awareness of a
skills shortage in coming up next month
Poland,
22 including foreign Swearing, bilingualism in South Tyrol and
flipping the classroom.
languages