Research report: a literature review and short report exploring how the digital shift is affecting international cultural relations, and where future research on this topic needs to focus.


Festivals in South East Asia: Catalysts for the Creative Economy
This research takes a closer look at festivals in Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore, exploring the state of play, opportunities and needs in each country.

Language Trends England 2022
Research series: this year's Language Trends report surveyed teachers at more than 1600 primary, secondary and independent schools across England about language learning.

Applying the Lexile Framework to evaluate text complexity in the Chinese context: A corpus-based study
Discover how well the Lexile Framework fits China’s English exams, and what it reveals about reading demands across the four key stages of education.

The impact of textual features in academic journals on learner engagement
Improving sentence structure and flow, not just vocabulary, can boost how well engineering students understand academic texts

Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL)
Discover the 5,000 words learners know best. The Knowledge-based Vocabulary Lists (KVL) were created as part of an innovative research project sponsored by the British Council.