Forum guidelines

• All posts are property of the poster. The forum administrator has the right to alter or delete any post. Posts may be deleted for any reasons the forum administrators deem reasonable.
• Commercial postings and solicitations are prohibited. The primary languages forum is not intended to provide free advertising for commercial publishers and services. Commercial providers are an integral part of the language teaching community and we do not wish to exclude them in any way from using the forum, so before posting please read our full guidance below on commercial postings.
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Guidance on commercial postings

Commercial providers are of course welcome to participate in all discussions. We also appreciate that forum members may be interested to receive information about relevant resources or services.

As a general rule:

Responses to requests for information on the forum may point to specific resources or services but direct advertising is not welcome.

• If a publisher has produced specific resources which directly address a query posted on the forum, the publisher should reply directly to the enquirer.
• Where there is a request for information on a specific commercial resource/service, other commercial companies should not intervene in the discussion by posting about their own resource/service.
• Commercial providers and those affiliated with them are also asked to identify themselves as such when posting to the forum.

Other acceptable posts from commercial providers regarding their resources or services include:

• If a publisher is looking for authors or ideas for new materials.
• If a publisher would like to pilot or receive feedback on materials which are in development and freely available to members of the forum.