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Alan Maley revisits the relevance of Shakespeare.

Latest book reviews: Interaction Online by Lindsay Clandfield and Jill Hadfield

Alan Maley introduces a new series in which he recommends reading

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she invites you to take a closer look at your word processing skills.

Ros Wright and her colleagues investigated the salaries and conditions of English teachers in France.

The Image in English Language Teaching  Edited by Kieran Donaghy and Daniel Xerri ELT Council 2017 978-99957-1-151-1The Image in English Language Teaching argues that, in spite of a dramatic shift in how we engage with visual media on a regular basis in today’s society, the ELT industry has been slow to adapt. Although some coursebooks are beginning to use images to stimulate debate in classrooms, there is still a dominance of mono-modal texts, even though students engage with multi-modal texts much more frequently outside class. This current state of affairs is due to little attempt being made to design...

Daniel Monaghan and Tessa Woodward begin a new series with a look at how students can encounter a stimulus little by little.

In this series, Nicky Hockly deciphers some of the acronyms which abound in the area.

Marjorie Rosenberg maintains there are as many ways of learning lexis as there are learners.

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John Potts charts the intricacies and idiosyncrasies, the contradictions and complications that make the English language so fascinating for teachers and teaching. In the second of his new series, he wonders whether ‘if + would’ is ever acceptable – and he would urge you to read on.

Paul Bress encourages you to keep your students encouraged and enthusiastic.

David Tedone discusses a dynamic, empirical approach to placement testing in "A practical approach to placement testing of adults for Business English".

Empower has a grammar reference with exercises, vocabulary focus, audioscripts, a section on phonemic symbols, pronunciation exercises and a list of irregular verbs.

In the February instalment of our Teaching Tip series, Vanessa Reis-Esteves provides ways of learning interactively in the classroom.