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It is with great delight that we announce our new membership with English Australia. By leading and empowering members of the English language teaching sector, English Australia has provided much needed guidance and support to ELICOS centres across the country during the most challenging times the industry has ever seen since its foundation. As English...

  If you have plans to travel abroad in the future for study or work, you may hear about or even experience what we call a ‘culture shock’. Culture shock, possibly like any other kind of shocks, affects people in various ways. The impact of the shock differs from one person to another depending on your own culture — how large the cultural gap...

Building your English vocabulary is essential to improving fluency. That is a fact. If you do not know words, you cannot say much. The more words you know, the less time you need to think of what to say in a conversation. When you have a small or limited vocabulary, you will have to pause to think. Those pauses make...

In a previous article, we touched on the importance of self-introductions in general and zoomed in on one particular skill that I believe is critical in a first conversation, but also in any social interaction, and that is the skill of keeping the conversation going by finishing your answer with a question. If you haven’t...

G’d day folks! One of the early challenges international students face upon their arrival to Australia is finding suitable and of course affordable accommodation, and while it is fairly easy to find affordable accommodation by sharing a room with 1 or more people, finding suitable accommodation can be a bit more complicated. So, in this...