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Jul 17 2025

What’s (not) changed in English Language Teaching?

philipjkerr

The British Council likes innovation. For over 20 years they have been handing out ‘ELTon’ awards to celebrate ‘innovation in English language teaching and learning’. Last year, to mark their 90th anniversary, they organised the ‘ELTons Festival of Innovation’. As part of this, they produced a...

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Nov 23 2023

Multimodality and modals

philipjkerr

My attention was recently drawn (thanks to Grzegorz Śpiewak) to a recent free publication from OUP. It’s called ‘Multimodality in ELT: Communication skills for today’s generation’ (Donaghy et al., 2023) and it’s what OUP likes to call a ‘position paper’: it offers ‘evidence-based recommendations...

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