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	<title>TEFLtastic with Alex Case &#187; News</title>
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		<title>Big changes to BULATS</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/exams/bulats/big-changes-to-bulats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/exams/bulats/big-changes-to-bulats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BULATS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t seem to have been officially announced yet, but my broken link detector took me to a major reorganisation of the BULATS website under which hid even bigger changes to the exam. What I&#8217;ve managed to discover so far: - It is now possible to take the Speaking and Writing tests at a computer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan facing new demographic crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/japan-new-demographic-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/japan-new-demographic-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As well as facing the world’s most rapidly ageing society, according to a speech by a government minister yesterday Japan is also having to deal for the first time with its supply of foreign teachers getting older and older as the supply of 23-year old “fresh meat” (my translation) through Nova and the JET scheme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No staff injured in British Council Kabul attack</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/chains/bc/british-council-kabul-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/chains/bc/british-council-kabul-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My newspaper said there were doubts on the matter, but according to the British Council&#8217;s statement only security forces were affected.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>TEFL news roundup 9 Jun 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cert/tefl-news-9-jun-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cert/tefl-news-9-jun-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian are back to their worst TEFL advertorial tricks, only now the TEFL section has disappeared it&#8217;s moved to careers. This time possibly tops them all, with their usual advertorial writer from TEFL England (spin off from tacky marketing gurus TEFL Scotland) writing an advertorial for less than universally respected company Interac in Japan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Council to be scrapped?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/chains/bc/british-council-scrapped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/chains/bc/british-council-scrapped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telegraph TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=6879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The BBC World Service, the British Council and the Environment Agency are among the 94 publicly funded bodies whose fate has yet to be decided.&#8221; from Quango Cuts in the Torygraph It wouldn&#8217;t seem to make sense to close all the teaching centres, as most of them make money. Does anyone still think the coalition cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eikaiwa continues to shrink</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/eikaiwa-shrinks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/eikaiwa-shrinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David English House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eikaiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Teachers in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Let's Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL chains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=6833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David English House in Hiroshima, a well respected school run by author and all round booster of professionalism in Nippon David Paul, closed for business on 1 September leaving him personally bankrupt. Sounds like they managed the process well, though, according to the ELTNews website (also set up by him I think), and ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) will carry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even celebrities hate TEFLers</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/europe/w-europe/spain/celebrities-hate-teflers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/europe/w-europe/spain/celebrities-hate-teflers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL certificate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=6250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The year before was a bloody disaster – I was rambling around the streets of Los Angeles, drinking way too many frappucinos and wondering what the hell I was doing here. I had no work and my mother was threatening me with Tefl courses in Barcelona.&#8221; Now apparently she&#8217;s going to be famous (unlike the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guest piece- 2000 Sri Lankan English Teachers Coming to Korea??</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/elg/sri-lankan-teachers-in-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/elg/sri-lankan-teachers-in-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EL Gazette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Marxist TEFL Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NNESTs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=6245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Anontastic “No doubt,  anyone reading the EL Gazette this month may have done a double take when looking at the front page for August 2010 – I know that I did. According to the headlines, Korea plans to recruit over 2000 new English teachers, and all from Sri Lanka. When I read that figure, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Disneyfication of English teaching</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/china/disneyfication-of-elt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/china/disneyfication-of-elt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disney English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=6034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Literally. The main motivation for setting up official Disney English schools in China is finding a product that isn&#8217;t prone to piracy, all parts of all lessons are based on Disney characters, and whatever teaching that leaves for people who are in the room is done by &#8220;cast members&#8221;. However, as the FT article (free registration needed, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Online CELTA on the way</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cambridge/celta/online-celta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cambridge/celta/online-celta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge ESOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CELTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online CELTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=5942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Official Cambridge PR announcement Hattip to TEFLista for pointing out this out to me, via a thread on Evil Dave&#8217;s. Seems the teaching practice will still happen face to face as now, and it could be a good thing if it persuades more people to do the course part-time and so have more time to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goddess English</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/india/goddess-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/india/goddess-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 11:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in India]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=5676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;A FORTNIGHT ago, in a poor village in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, work began on a temple dedicated to Goddess English. Standing on a wooden desk was the idol of English — a bronze figure in robes, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding aloft a pen. About 1,000 villagers had gathered for the groundbreaking, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Shane English School (NZ) faces liquidation&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/shane-english-school-nz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/shane-english-school-nz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eikaiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Let's Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shane Language Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL chains]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=5521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true, and don&#8217;t know what it would mean if it was, but it would have a strange and worrying symmetry with the recent problems with GEOS Australia, also a mainly Japan-based chain with branches in the antipodes: http://www.propbd.co.nz/afa.asp?idWebPage=8338&#38;idBobDeyProperty_Articles=14034 Is the end of Eikaiwa nigh?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>More ELT publishing bad news?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/more-elt-publishing-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/more-elt-publishing-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=4213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Farewell to the Georgian Press List, taken over by CUP. Although my own copies of Georgian Press books were long ago lost in my endless moves from country to country leaving teachers&#8217; rooms stocked with my books behind me (I will reclaim my copy of The Encyclopedia of Language from Central School in London someday!) I will always [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guardian TEFL fades away</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/guardian-tefl-fades-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/tefl-links/guardian-tefl-fades-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guardian TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking at the pages of Education Guardian, there are four much loved (and for some reason also much hated) letters that have recently gone missing, and those letters are T,E,F and L. The Guardian TEFL pages still exist, but I don&#8217;t know how anyone would end up there without a single internal link on the Guardian [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Saving the world&#8217;s dialects through technology</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/saving-the-worlds-dialects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/saving-the-worlds-dialects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I can&#8217;t seem to stop eliciting (really!) I&#8217;ll tell you what you will read on it and see if you can work out the dialect being saved and the technology doing it for yourselves: &#8220;Reading your bladder of lard, please wait&#8221; &#8220;First enter your Huckleberry Finn&#8221; &#8220;Please enter amount of sausage and mash&#8221; &#8220;Choose from Lady [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How not to teach pronunciation</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/how-not-to-teach-pronunciation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/how-not-to-teach-pronunciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimal pairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pronunciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Thailand]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=3132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Japanese college students who&#8217;d had little exposure to spoken English underwent 12 sessions listening to exaggerated &#8220;Ls&#8221; and &#8220;Rs&#8221; while watching the computerized instructor&#8217;s face pronounce English words. Brain scans — a hair dryer-looking device called MEG, for magnetoencephalography — that measure millisecond-by-millisecond activity showed the students could better distinguish between those alien English sounds. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another reason not to jump on the CLIL bandwagon?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/clil-bandwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/clil-bandwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative teaching techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLIL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Malaysia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;in 1999 a&#8230;study by Dr. Allan Bernardo of De La Salle University investigated the effects of different learner and instructional factors on solving arithmetic word problems among grade school students. The results showed better comprehension and solution performance when the tests were in the learners&#8217; L1 in spite of being taught in English&#8221; From an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two years, one million clicks- Is it time for you to exploit me?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/two-years-one-million-clicks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/two-years-one-million-clicks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TEFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest writers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=2567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m cheating a bit (as 10% of that is for my TEFLtastic spin off JapanExplained site) and have no way of knowing if that is a lot or a little for a blog, but it&#8217;s a nice round number that sounds like a lot and comes nicely on my two year anniversary so I thought I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maybe British host families aren&#8217;t the worst</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/british-host-families/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/british-host-families/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural differences/ cultural training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This American family borrowed 1000 dollars off their Norweigan exchange student and then he got booted out of the country! Still, I still think host families in London win the prize. One Brazilian student told a hilarious story of rushing to secretly cook a potato while their host mother was out only to hear the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Cambridge SELTA</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cambridge-selta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/t-training/qualifications/cambridge-selta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 01:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge ESOL]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/?p=2213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That is &#8220;Survival in English Language Teaching for Adults&#8221;, the forthcoming shorter, easier course that is designed to compete with the cheaper courses offered by online TEFL course providers etc. Here is the provisional syllabus, published so that Cambridge can get your input before the final announcement is made: - 20 ways to say &#8220;That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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