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1. Next Tuesday, 27th April at 15:00 UK time sees the next ECML webinar, on “The future of language education – learning lessons from the pandemic” https://www.ecml.at/Resources/Webinars/tabid/5456/Default.aspx The webinar will present the preliminary findings of the ECML’s survey of how … Continue reading →

1. Let’s start off today with a quick reminder of English UK’s Teachers Day from 09:00 UK time tomorrow, 22nd April https://www.englishuk.com/elt-conference#teachersday Here’s a link to Silvana Richardson and Chia Suan Chong’s talk at 12:00 UK time on The native … Continue reading →

1. Another excellent blog post from Alexandra Mihai, Thinking about authentic learning? Try Project-Based Learning https://educationalist.substack.com/p/thinking-about-authentic-learning Good reading list at the end, as ever! 2. The kind of feature, from The Guardian’s Experience series, that I’d have given my eye … Continue reading →

1. Never mind Brexit! Never mind Covid! What’s the biggest story in all the UK papers today and the first item on all the TV and radio news bulletins? Football! Specifically, the plans by twelve of the richest clubs to … Continue reading →

1. This month’s edition of Humanising Language Teaching (HLT) from Pilgrims – no country focus this time round that I can detect but the usual rich and varied mixture of topics nonetheless! https://www.hltmag.co.uk/apr21/ 2. Two considered pieces from The Conversation … Continue reading →

Lots of webinars today! 1.  On Monday, 19th April, at 14:00 UK time, Assessing teenagers online from OUP with Sarah Rogerson and Paul Davies https://www.facebook.com/oupeltglobal/ PDF of the ‘focus paper’ on the topic below. (Free to download, along with lots … Continue reading →

1. Chris Sowton is giving a webinar for TeachingEnglish at 12:00 UK time tomorrow, 15th April, on Teaching in Challenging Circumstances https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/10-key-strategies-teaching-challenging-circumstances which is also the title of the book that Chris published recently with Cambridge University Press. Here’s more … Continue reading →

1. Three free Modern English Teacher articles here https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/ Scroll down the page a little: Dave Dodgson on Teacher Professional Development – keeping your own motivation going, Fiona Dunlop on Raising your profile and Jeffrey Dawala Wilang on A positive … Continue reading →

1. As I’m sure most of you worked out, there was no message on Friday because Prince Philip died that morning, at the end of a very long and interesting life. Here’s The Guardian‘s long and interesting obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/prince-philip-the-duke-of-edinburgh-obituary “Things … Continue reading →

1. This recent piece of research by Strathclyde University into what they call composite classes – classes made up of children from more than one year group, as is still reasonably common in a number of countries round the world … Continue reading →