Voices
Katy Simpson Davies and Laura Patsko will run a British Council Seminar in Glasgow on 26 November 2013 on teaching pronunciation and listening in an ELF context (English as a lingua franca).
Lucinda Hawksley gives us an idea here of the language and images employed by British journalists, propagandists and artists during that time.
Victoria explains how to use e-books in the classroom, following her British Council seminar on the subject.
Brits have a reputation for being poor linguists, so a group of UK institutions, including the British Council, launched a campaign last week to encourage everyone to learn another language.
Gary Motteram explains how the arrival of digital technologies in the classroom has helped learning.
Teacher trainer Chris Lima explains how 19th-century language and culture are less of a hindrance in relating literature to language students than one might assume.
In the latest from our English language seminars, Dr Christopher J. Hall explains why the idea that there is just one correct and unchanging form of English is a myth.
As states invest more and more in their soft power, experts debate global trends in London on 18 June 2013. This is the transcript.
A new British Council report, ‘Influence and Attraction: Culture and the Race for Soft Power in the 21st Century’, discusses global trends in cultural relations and soft power.
Johanna Stirling shares three myths about English spelling from her recent British Council seminar.