A series of classic texts from the British Council, made available online to celebrate the British Council's 75th and 80th anniversaries.

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Academic Writing: process and product
This volume, published in 1988, consists of papers from the eponymous 1985 University of Reading Conference.
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Activity days in language learning: Notes for teacher trainers
This booklet from 1977 accompanied a teacher training film about innovative ‘activity days’ at the British Council’s English Language...
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An index to twenty-five years of English language teaching, 1946–1971
Published in 1972, this volume covers the first 25 years of the journal now known as ELT Journal. Compiled by the British Council’s English...
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Best of ELTECS
This 1995 publication celebrates the five-year history of ELTECS (the English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme), set up in 1990 ‘to...
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Common ground: Shared interests in ESP and communication studies
The editors of this 1984 volume in the ELT Documents series describe English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and communication studies (viewed...
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Culture and the language classroom
This 1990 collection of papers looks at contexts of language teaching from educational and cultural perspectives, starting from the premise...
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Developments in the Training of Teachers of English
This volume dates from 1979 and is a gem for anyone interested in the early days of university level ELT qualifications, especially in the...
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Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning
This 1985 collection in the ELT Documents series provides multiple insights for the successful teaching of dictionary use in the language...
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ELT Guide-1: Communication games
Devised by the British Council’s English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI), specifically Donn Byrne and Shelagh Rixon, this 1979...
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ELT Guide-2: Simulations
This 1979 ‘teaching aid devised by the English Language Teaching Institute’ was authored by David Herbert and Gill Sturtridge. ‘Simulations...
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ELT textbooks and materials: problems in evaluation and development
This frequently cited 1987 publication focuses on textbooks designed for use by English language learners, and dictionaries. A range of...
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English as a Second Language in the United Kingdom
This is, of course, as much a key topic in the UK as it was in 1985 when this book was originally published.
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English as an International Language
This concise volume from 1978 is pre-‘World Englishes’ and before the acceptance of Kachru’s model of the inner, outer and expanding...
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English for academic study with special reference to science and technology: Problems and perspectives
This seminal 1975 publication offers contrasting viewpoints on the then-emerging field of English for academic purposes, with a specific...
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English for specific purposes
This 1978 publication focuses on English for academic purposes (EAP) also referred to at the time as English for educational purposes, and...
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English for specific purposes: an international seminar
This report, which includes papers by John Munby, Henry Widdowson and Tom Jupp, was compiled following an international ESP seminar...
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English in the world: Teaching and learning the language and literatures
This book contains papers from an International Conference on ‘Progress in English Studies’ held in London between 17 and 21 September 1984...
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English language teaching, volume 1 issue 1
The first issue of English Language Teaching, subtitled 'A Periodical Devoted to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language', was...
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English studies information update 4: Inspectorate work and accreditation
Published in 1990, the overall theme of this in-house British Council publication is quality assurance of language provision, a topic which...
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English teaching abroad and the British universities
This 1961 publication consists of papers from a high-level conference on University Training and Research in the Teaching of English as a...
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