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CONTENTS

MARCH 2018

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Editor’s letter

5 Melanie Butler mulls some Very British Englishlanguagegazette
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Upfront

6 Hundreds of English language teachers
do not have degrees. 10
Upfront

7 Government pickle over Spanish language
in Catalan schools.
World

8 Israel’s education minister says people
without English skills will be ‘handicapped’.

Research
10 The future is translingual.

More research news 24

11 Chatting to your kids is more important
than talking at them.

features & comment
UK Language centres Under the microscope

24 Parents are still being forced to chance it
Centres of Excellence
with language schools, argues Melanie Butler.
13-23 The El Gazette’s latest
language school rankings complete with full
analysis from our experts. Point of view

26 English UK’s Sarah Cooper on what
makes English teaching a special career.

People
28 The island where the native/non-native
debate doesn’t even come up.
28 reviews & resources

Review

30 Wayne Trotman looks at how teachers
The can do a lot with very little.
proportion of 32
Resources
non-graduate How to prepare students for the Ielts
teachers deemed speaking test.
unacceptable
remains coming up next month
14 unclear n Look to Hogwarts for teacher training wis-

(see page 6) dom; how to use debates in class; Elton’s glory
beckons.
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