By . Following a review by the Home Office, which was undertaken after significant abuse involving English language tests was uncovered last year, only Trinity College London, which will offer testing in the UK, and Cambridge English Language Assessment, which will carry out tests both in the UK and overseas, have had tests approved. More...
THE last time she was recruiting for her export-sales team, Sarah Grain hired a Lithuanian who speaks Russian, Polish and German. Her two previous hires for Eriez Magnetics, which makes industrial equipment in South Wales, were an Italian who also speaks French, and a Venezuelan who speaks Spanish and Portuguese. All of them speak fluent English. “There were no British applicants who had the requisite language skills,” she says. Ms Grain’s conclusion is not unusual for a British company. In 2012 a European Commission survey tested the foreign-language proficiency of 54,000 students aged 14 and 15, in 14 nations. More...
Par Figaro Etudiant. D’après le dernier rapport publié par The MLA (Modern Languages Association), et relayé par le Washington Post ,la popularité des langues européennes auprès des élèves américains est en chute libre ces dernières années. Suite...
By Natalie Marsh. The Nordic region has the greatest proportion of English Taught Programmes (ETPs) in Europe at HE level, according to a recent study by the Academic Cooperation Association. More...
By Natalie Marsh. The number of enrolments in foreign language courses in the US has dropped, according to a report released last week by the US Modern Language Association. Interest in Korean has shown a reverse trend, however, as growing interest in the region caused a significant upswing in enrollments. More...
By Natalie Marsh. An English teaching course run by the US State Department on MOOC platform Coursera broke participation and completion records immediately after its inception last spring. The course has began its second phase of the year this month and continues to attract participants from around the world. More...
By Sara Custer. The recent Quality English and Quality Education mission to South America targeted pioneering markets in Ecuador and Peru in a bid to connect with emerging agents, organisers have said. More...
By Sara Custer. Australia’s peak body for English language providers, English Australia, has partnered with pan-European quality agency association EAQA as part of its Partner Agency Program launched last year. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Vista Higher Learning, the leading higher education publisher focused exclusively on language instruction, today announced the release of Portales, an interactive online program for teaching and learning Spanish at the college level. Created by Vista’s team of language education experts, Portales provides educators with a variety of resources to meet the unique needs of online learners. More...
By Matt Reed. This shouldn’t get anyone worked up at all…
Let’s say that a community college has a two-semester composition sequence as a general education requirement. Which tasks and skills should go where?
You’d think there would be general agreement by now, but I’ve seen several variations. Read more...
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