Research publications
Find and download a wide variety of research publications and resource books for teachers, trainers and other English language teaching (ELT) professionals. In this section, you’ll find an extensive collection of publications that provide practical insights, perspectives and learning on current issues in English language teaching. These publications will help inform your work and ensure you remain up to date, whether you are a teacher, teacher educator, policymaker or other professional in the field.
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Using digital technologies
AI4Ed Nepal: Quality education service delivery through innovation
How is Nepal’s education system using AI? This research reveals teacher experiences, opportunities, challenges, and strategic priorities.
Using inclusive practices
Using multilingual practices
Planning teacher learning
Decolonising the teaching of English in Ukrainian secondary schools
A continuing professional development (CPD) programme helped Ukrainian English teachers rethink language, strengthen self-efficacy, and embrace decolonised classroom practices.
Using inclusive practices
Planning teacher learning
Inclusive and social-justice oriented pedagogies in English language classrooms
How can English teachers promote inclusion and social justice? Insights from Türkiye, Pakistan and Scotland reveal opportunities and challenges.
Using inclusive practices
Language, learning and belonging: practice, policy and refugee voice
This research across eleven countries highlights refugees’ language learning aspirations, barriers to access, and pathways to inclusion, education and work.
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Using digital technologies
Using inclusive practices
Using multilingual practices
Understanding the educational context
Adopting inclusive practices
English language teaching and education research in Thailand
Explore our research on English language teaching and education in Thailand, covering teacher education, higher education, and inclusion.
Using multilingual practices
Understanding the educational context
Language-responsive education
Our updated perspective on inclusive language policy and practice, examining how education systems can respond effectively to diverse linguistic contexts.
Using multilingual practices
Understanding the educational context
Multilingual Education (MultiEd)
This study, led by the British Council in partnership with the University of Cambridge and leading academic institutions in India and Germany, examines multilingual approaches in English-medium government primary schools in Delhi and Assam.
Understanding my context
Understanding the educational context
Understanding teacher learning
Supporting ongoing teacher professional development
Taking responsibility for your own professional development
Development of CPD programme models for in-service primary and secondary English teachers in Indonesia
This research examines the design, delivery, and impact of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes for in‑service primary and secondary English teachers in Indonesia.
Managing teacher learning
Scalable models for teacher professional development: Insights from the British Council
Read how collaborative, context-responsive and evidence-informed approaches strengthen teaching and learning worldwide.
Using multilingual practices
Understanding the educational context
Adopting inclusive practices
Empowering English language teachers to adopt multilingual pedagogy in Nepal through participatory action research
This report shows how some teachers in Nepal have developed multilingual classrooms, using students