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Editor’s letter

5 Knowing how to be a good host is key, www.linkedin.com/
company/el-gazette
writes Melanie Butler.
news

Upfront

6 England’s ELLs do just as well as other
pupils.
Upfront

7 Ireland under pressure for accreditation
mess.

World 26
8 Japan’s international-students boost.
News spotlight

10 Preschool news from New York, Korea 24
and New Zealand. features & comment

Research

12 A Texan study highlights how quickly Point of view

Hispanic ELLs learn English. 24 Be nice to international students, writes
China Special Feature. EU ECHO and Save the Children Yinbo Yu.
Out of the box

25 Swearing in a foreign language may be
China special
14-23 From overcoming Chinese ill-advised but students need to understand the
teachers’ reticence about classroom basics, writes Terry Thorne.
observation, to organising trips to summer
schools in the UK. Under the Microscope

26 Why the ELT big guns should listen to
the little guys.

28 28 Teacher training in Ethiopian refugee
People
camps.

reviews & resources

Review

In Chinese 30 What is ‘reflective practice’?
education 32
Resources
‘teacher Declan Carey looks at how to make
observations’ games work for language learning.
have long had
a rather nasty coming up next month
20 reputation n Teaching Ielts listening, Japan’s international

(page 20) schools boom and our UK Language Centre
Rankings.
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