In this webinar we will be exploring one of the BIG questions in international education: what’s the future for the world’s most spoken language?

In April this year, The British Council launched its landmark research publication ‘The Future of English: Global Perspectives’, and announced that it marked the inception of a three-year research programme into the demand and usage of English language, and the global forces driving them.

The research themes could not be more important to providers of English-taught programmes and include:

Will English remain the world’s most sought-after language?

What role will English play as part of a multilingual reality?

What is the future of English as a medium of education?

To what extent is employment driving the future of English?

During this webinar we will be discussing both the book’s content and the planned research programme, hearing directly from some of its authors and editors. A key driver of the research is to engage and give voice to stakeholders throughout the world, in order to shape the agenda for further discussion, research and planning. This is an opportunity to join the conversation on this hugely important topic, and to hear from the experts who are behind it.

Panellists details:

Mina Patel, Assessment Research Manager, British Council

Professor Barry O’Sullivan, Head of Assessment Research & Development, British Council

Professor Guoxing Yu, Professor of Language Assessment, University of Bristol

Dr Chihiro Inoue, Associate Professor in Language Assessment, CRELLA, University of Bedfordshire.

Host:

Nick Golding, Business Development Director, The PIE