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CONTENTS

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Editor’s letter

5 Everyone is having fun this summer, aren’t www.linkedin.com/
company/el-gazette
they? Melanie Butler asks
news

Upfront

6 Spanish schools to drop
bilingual programmes
Upfront

7 Taiwan invests in English
language education
World

8 New Zealand struggles with English 12
teacher supply, and exam candidates in 22
England are asked: ‘What’s a selfie?’

Research

10 Academics probe a long-standing features & comment
theory of language acquisition Under the microscope

News feature

12 Campaigners fear plans to deregulate 20 The business model for most English
language schools means sales staff are valued
US education will take focus off ELLs above teachers, writes Melanie Butler
Point of view

Market Report . 22 Do all English language lessons have to
be fun?, ask Tom Flaherty and Sarah Priestley
15-19 Feature
From London
to Scotland

The EL Gazette takes a magnifying glass to 24 Don’t get caught out over pay of
the ELT business in the UK sleep-in staff
10 People

24 Liz Huntley tells how a career in ELT and
a chance meeting led to her co-authoring her
first novel

The hard reviews & resources
reality is that the Resources

business model for 28 How to teach presentation skills
language schools Review
relies not on the 32 Irena Barker nods off as her kids are
quality of the entranced by a sheepish new cartoon series for

teaching but on young learners
the quality of the coming up next month
15 salesmanship n Our UK Language Centre Ranking 2018
(page 20)
n Teachers need to learn their students’ language
n My first year as an English language teacher
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