Exploring the potential for assessing interactional and pragmatic competence in semi-direct speaking tests
Explore how a semi-direct speaking test can capture a broader range of real-world communication skills
Research report
How bilingual schooling affects students from different socio-economic backgrounds: the student perspective
Discover how bilingual education can help bridge socio-economic gaps in English language learning.
Advanced speech fluency measurement: innovations and applications
This research tests a new way to measure fluency in second language speech without manual transcription, and looks at how it could support language assessment.
Next Generation Poland
This study captures the experiences, aspirations, ambitions and values of Poland’s youth.
The Big Conversation Climate Change
Research report: study providing insight on values and attitudes towards climate change among the populations of China, India, Japan and Mexico.
Next Generation Lebanon
Amidst a social uprising, economic and political challenges and a global pandemic, young people in Lebanon have their say at a crucial moment in the country’s history.
Cultural relations, dialogue and co-operation in an age of competition
Research report: we explore the role that cultural relations plays in more challenging contexts in building a resilient platform for dialogue and co-operation between nations.
The Comprehensive Learning System
For learning programmes to succeed, they should be seen as a system where curriculum, delivery and assessment work together.
The Big Conversation pilot research
Research report: study exploring values and attitudes towards international cooperation at a time of global crisis.
Language testing as cultural relations
Explore how the British Council’s work in testing and assessment has contributed to the organisation’s cultural relations agenda.