The English Test for the Healthcare Sector
Occupational English Test (OET) is an international English language test that assesses the language communication skills of healthcare professionals…
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Take the World Teacher Survey!
From recent and frequent reports on the difficulties facing teachers: from recruitment, workload and pressure to demonstrate results, it…
IELTS Joint-Funded Research Programme 2018
The IELTS partners (British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia, and Cambridge Assessment English) are pleased to invite applications for…
Teaching in culturally diverse classrooms
It is a truth that Greece has been an immigrant receiving country for more than two decades. Thus, there is…
Sit more exams to beat stress Schools minister Nick Gibb tells GCSE pupils
Children should sit more exams so that they find them less stressful by the time they take their…
Grammar changes faster than vocabulary
The ‘myth’ of language history: languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and…
5 Things You Should Do To Become A Better EFL Teacher
Don’t set homework you have not covered in class. This is very common, quite often in an attempt to cover…
English is no longer a foreign language in NL
Are the Dutch now native speakers of English, and is Dutch-English a distinctive thing? Deborah Nicholls-Lee meets linguistics expert…
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Είναι μια εικόνα δεκάδων χρόνων ή μάλλον μερικών αιώνων. Είναι μια αρχετυπική εικόνα, ένας ισχυρός συμβολισμός των εκπαιδευτικών συστημάτων όπου…
What Authentic Learning is
Passive learning has been the only way of learning in school for centuries, but experiential and active ways of…