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From Feelings to Fluency: How EI Shapes Success
If you asked someone for a list of characteristics that make a good language learner, their list might include a good memory, curiosity, a willingness to take risks, tolerance of ambiguity & a readiness to speak even when they’re not fully sure. But there’s another ingredient that rarely gets named explicitly: the ability to understand,…
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Translation, 4,500 years old and still trying to get it just right
What do we know about the first recorded example of a written translation? Well, it dates back to around 4,500 years ago, when a Sumerian scribe carved a bilingual glossary into clay to help readers move between Sumerian & Akkadian. Ever since, people have questioned how “faithful” a translation can be to its source -though…
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Exhibit A: Why Teachers Still Matter
A growing number of ELT teachers are watching AI reshape their own field, so it’s fascinating to see how another high-stakes profession is grappling with similar questions. A new open-access survey by Dehghani, Dehghani, Naderzadeh Ardebili & Rahnamayan (Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2025) maps out how large language models are being used across legal…
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Meet the Brain: The Original LLM
Here’s a study that tackles the age‑old question of how we learn a language & what exactly goes on in our brain while we make sense of speech. The paper, by Ariel Goldstein, Eric Ham, Mariano Schain, Uri Hasson & colleagues, was published in Nature Communications. The exciting bit? It offers one of the clearest…
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AI Can Read the Room… But Can It Read the Learners?
Every now & then a study comes along that feels both technically dazzling, while also being out of step with the lived realities of ELT classrooms. Zhongjie Li’s 2025 paper, Bridging pedagogy & technology: a generative AI & IoT approach to transformative English language education, very much falls into the latter category. It describes an…
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Let them eat ‘some’ cake
If I were to offer you some of my cake, how much would you assume you could take? A slim slice? A generous wedge? Anything short of the whole thing? That tiny judgement call sits at the heart of a new study from the University of Florence, published in Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali,…
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