Category: The Magazine

Language  testing is a powerful social tool used by language policymakers to promote a desired and favoured section of society…

  Learners carry around dictionaries not grammar books   In the current issue of ELT NEWS we focus on vocabulary…

What would you expect from a nurse from Greece who works in a hospital in the UK? To be able…

  Teaching to the test Standardized tests are primarily associated with large-scale tests administered to large populations of students.   A standardized…

Why Are Teachers Underappreciated? Most people have a kind of metaphor in their minds when they think of teachers and…

   Is it possible to learn a foreign language online? I always wanted to learn foreign languages especially French, Italian…

What is teaching and its future?   Where does the word ‘teach’ derive from?   Origin   According to Oxford…

Improve Classroom Behaviour   We need a culture where pupils learn from their behaviour mistakes as much as from academic…

How do you restart, refresh and refine your English? More and more adults are signing up for English classes either…

  Do we need coursebooks?   Coursebook selection and evaluation is a complex and multifaceted task. Especially at a time…