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BECTA RIP
Few will be shedding any tears for BECTA (the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency), who have been axed as part of the cull of quangos announced by the British government.
ESL Links
I have just cleaned out our links database and if it is anything like a representative sample of the ESL industry on the web, things are looking grim. We had just under 3,000 links when I started and have just under 2,500 now. It's a particularly dull and time-consuming job and I do it about on...
Twilocity
I submitted a couple of pieces of writing to Twilocity, a site that reviews and checks MS Word documents by running the writing through some macros. They were returned in a short time and the results were good. The blurb on the site says that their review should take you up to the next grade le...
Zotero
For people using Firefox, there's a superb add-on Zotero to help you organise your research, create bibliographies, reference lists, etc, complete with a number of styles.
Who will judge the ESL Judge?
ESLJudge claims to be a site that 'allows ESL schools and teachers to resolve disputes professionally and fairly', which is a laudable aim. However, it certainly does not live up to its lofty aims and is unlikely ever to do so. It was launched far too early, which in itself is probably enough t...
Job Adverts in our Forum
We will delete any ESL job adverts that appear in our forum. Our forum is for language discussions and not a free place to advertise jobs.
Lingro- a translation tool
Lingro is a site that offers a useful translation tool. Enter the URL of a site or page, then choose the language you want to translate words into and you can click on the words you don't know and bring up a pop-up box with a translation.
I am Spartacus
Over at the TeflTrade blog, Sandy McManus has received another legal demand for material critical of a school to be taken down from his site. This time, his blog host received a letter alleging defamation from Mr Paul Lowe of Windsor TEFL, who appeared in this blog here and also replied to what ...
Comments in polls
The language polls area of our site allows comments and they are displayed immediately without moderation. This does mean that we get some comments that are nonsensical or just plain rude. Having made it impossible to post links, we no longer get spam comments, but we do occasionally get someon...
Nova
When I was living in Japan, it was virtually impossible to avoid Nova advertising; they were all over the subway, in my newspaper and on TV. For the last few months, the company, the largest of the eikaiwa schools in Japan, has been in free-fall, ever since they got into trouble over their refun...
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