TEFL News Hot Off The Press: August 27

• From a rather unlikely source, the New Yorker, fiction with the ESL classroom as a backdrop.
• “It seems so logical, and I don’t know why we haven’t done it all along”: pupils in Georgia put language skills to use. (you have to register to read it)
• English language requirement enforced for nursing student applicants in Dubai.
• An article explaining why learning a language does not automatically entail teaching extremism.
• English will not shatter into smithereens if you drop it, according to one writer highlighting an anthology of “rotten English.”
• Understanding English language said to be the biggest barrier facing immigrants to Ireland.
• One Massachusetts town holds an ESL lottery to determine who can attend classes.

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