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That attempt to value the position of ‘Housewife’ popped up in my Facebook feed again. I cringed because the attempt to translate a position…
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Many teachers are well aware of techniques like dialogues or roleplaying as standard parts of many textbooks for teaching ESL/EFL conversation, for example. However,…
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The TOEFL® Family of Assessments: A Portfolio of English-language Testing Options
Over the last 16+ years, ETS’s TOEFL ® program had one four-skills English-language test offering a single mode of delivery that learners around the world…
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As digital natives, students demand innovative ways to learn outside of classical modes of learning. The use of smartphones for English language instruction has…