BBC World Service has announced that its English language teaching service celebrated 10 years online. Special features on www.bbclearningenglish.com to mark the anniversary include: a site displaying classic pages; a specially commissioned piece by UK linguist David Graddol discussing who will be learning English in the future and how and what they will be learning; a blogging facility providing daily language support to individual bloggers via a teacher's weblog. For teachers of English, weekly lesson plans based on topical news stories are available.
Japan to start teacher training courses
《读卖日报》联合牛津大学出版社推出英语教师证书
IN conjunction with The Daily Yomiuri, Japan's leading English-language newspaper, The Oxford University Press and David English House, an English language school in Japan, will present a Japan-specific certificate course for teachers of English at Japanese middle schools, high schools and universities. The course provides ideas derived from classroom research and trial-and-error experience in various Japanese teaching situations.
