The survey was distributed to all NATE members and more widely to other English teachers, and offered maximum opportunity for teacher comments. This provided remarkably rich data (from 267 respondents), only some of which can be captured in the summary article, which attempts to sketch findings thematically.

This summary was presented to be as readable as possible and not to be a monotonous series of graphs with commentary. Wherever possible the qualitative elements are offered as thematic findings. Inevitably not all respondents answered every question, and certain sections were aimed at specific groups of teachers or teacher educators.

The full survey – containing all graphs, numerical data and teacher comments – is available to any NATE members who would like to read it:

Email Andy Goodwyn, NATE’s Research Officer, at andy.goodwyn@beds.ac.uk

The full survey provides a remarkable number of varied and insightful comments that defy neat summary.

I should like to acknowledge the excellent support in the analysis from Oliver Belas, Steve Connolly, Linda Enow, Jonathan Morgan and Rachel Roberts.

Goodwyn, A. [2020] The State of English: NATE’s national survey of English teaching The English Magazine. pp. 29-32, Autumn 2020.