VietNamNet Bridge - The English teaching curriculum, with a focus on grammar lessons, and the lack of speaking practice, are behind the failure of the national English teaching program, experts say.

Dr Kevin Donnelly was recently commissioned by the Commonwealth Government to review the Australian national curriculum. Seventy teachers from the UK were sent to Shanghai to study classroom methods ...

Recently, it was revealed that Japanese public schools may start teaching English earlier (from third grade of elementary school), with more classes per week. The new "blueprint" for English education ...

TESOL Quarterly (TQ) is one of the most respected publications in second and foreign language teaching, with an annual acceptance rate of 8% of all article submissions. This scholarly journal serves ...

“It would be hard to name a more valuable pedagogical accomplishment than the mastery of questioning, listening, and response: three teaching skills as linked, though distinct, as the panels of a ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...

Just 15 years ago, bilingual education was banned in three states—Arizona, California, and Massachusetts—which altogether educated 40 percent of the nation’s English-language learners. Now, amid the ...