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Editor’s letter

5 Are EFL working conditions making teachers www.linkedin.com/
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ill, Melanie Butler asks
news

Upfront

6 The UK and Irish language travel markets
are booming
Upfront

7 Critical age research from MIT has raised
some interesting questions for language
acquisition
World

8 The French ambassador throws a strop
and the British Council awards Chinese English
teachers
10 Ielts score and vocabulary size dictate 12 10
Research

academic results at university

News feature

12 Phil Longwell examines the growing
poor teacher mental health in ELT features & comment
Under the microscope

Masters guide 2018. 24 Maybe we shouldn’t get too het up
about native-speaker competence, argues
Masters guide Melanie Butler
14-23UK and Ireland masters listing
plus full analysis of what is on offer and what Point of view

the future holds after Brexit 26 China may be big, but it’s also diverse,
28 writes Simon Cox

People

28 Come and teach in North Korea, writes
Ronny Mintjens, you might like it
In the red
corner we have reviews & resources
the sociolinguists Resources

concerned with 30 How to make your own graded readers
how language is
Review
used. In the blue 32
Wayne Trotman reviews a book
corner are the shedding light on the mysteries of ‘blended
psycholinguists and learning’
the neuroscientists
arguing about how it coming up next month
14 is processed n The importance of teaching presentation

(page 24) skills and why Krashen is wrong about
production
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