The Irish ELT business is in turmoil following the closure of a number of English language schools after allegations of visa fraud. Hundreds of students were affected by the fraud and the Irish government is stepping in to try and regulate the market. Ruairi Quinn,...
"Do you wanna be a hero with magic power?" The blurb tells you that this is the first Android game which uses your voice to control the action. Actually, to be precise, it says this is the first game which uses your voice to "control, navigate the action. Hope it's...
Back in February, the British Government suspended all TOEIC testing in the UK after it was revealed the exam was being scammed. Well it's back again. An investigation by the British Daily Mail newspaper has revealed how people who do not speak English can buy a...
Quite simply, English Grammar by Emantra Technologies is not worth downloading and installing on your tablet or smartphone. In fact, it appears to be little more than a sparse, poorly written grammar guide put into an app full of incredibly annoying and intrusive...
The backbone of learning a language is learning vocabulary and this android app aims to simplify that. As it says on the tin, it helps learners get to grips with 6,000 English words so theoretically if you spend hours upon hours upon hours trawling through the whole...
Morocco is set to change its university system, making English the main foreign language taught there. Currently universities in the country concentrate on French, but the Moroccan Minister for Higher Education announced late last week that in future universities will...
How do you fancy teaching English in the sunshine? A few weeks over in Italy or Mexico or somewhere else nice and hot, teaching in the morning then changing into your swimwear to grade homework while you lie on the beach? Sorry to burst your bubble, but the idyll of a...
There are a several good job sites for TEFL teachers. There are also a lot of terrible sites which charge money to join and offer nothing in return. The sites we list on this page have been carefully reviewed by our expert panel and offer worthwhile jobs for TEFL...
A professor of comparative English at Columbia university said that commas should be abolished. He said we should get rid of them and no one would care. He says we should kill them. Destroy them. Take each one and murder it in cold blood. And the reaction? Pages of...
The UK government has suspended all TOEIC testing in the UK after a TV investigation showed how the system was riddled with fraud with fake sitters taking the test on behalf of English language students. The investigation by Panorama (a respected BBC investigative...
