Barriers to change

Recently, I read a blog post by Phillip Kerr (2025) about how little English teaching had changed in the last 30 years. The post was a response to the British Council (2024) research paper subtitled A review of change in the teaching and learning of English and in teacher education and development from 2014 to 2024. His main critique of the paper was that although there are a myriad of blogs and research papers and journals out there talking about change in ELT, when it comes down to it, the real practitioners, the day-to-day teachers, are . . .

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Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies
Gareth Davies is a storyteller, writer, teacher and teacher trainer based in Cardiff. He has been in the ELT industry for 23 years teaching in Portugal, the UK, Spain and the Czech Republic. Since 2005, he has worked closely with several publishers, delivering teacher training and developing materials. Gareth is also an author of fiction and a storyteller. He is interested in developing creative writing and storytelling ideas for the classroom.