Six Tips for Teaching TOEFL Online
During a panel discussion included in EFL Magazine’s TOEFL Training Summit last week, participants were asked about possible gaps in the TOEFL training market…
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TOEFL Teaching: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
Whatever a students’ ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they will not do their…
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Incorporating Accessibility into Remote Assessments for the Classroom and Beyond
By Marc Vanhasselt, Vice President Accessibility, Prometric Remote assessments in the testing industry have evolved significantly within the past year. The pandemic accelerated the…
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How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform for Your Purpose.
Assessment is an integral albeit sometimes not very popular and very conservative part of language education. Until last year, some progressive teachers experimented with…
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Lessons Learned from My Hybrid Classes in 2020
In this article I outline the lessons I’ve learned from my hybrid classes in 2020.Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) is the correct term for what…
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Three Underutilised Aspects of Zoom
The internet abounds with stories of teachers moving their lessons online; they reflect on their experiences, and then they write about them. By this…
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Using Mobile Technology in the Classroom
Mobile technology is an almost inescapable aspect of our contemporary culture. It seems that with very few exceptions, most aspects of our lives can…
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Using Gboard in Language Learning Settings
With the advent of CALL (computer assisted language learning) in educational settings, a proliferation of experimental studies has addressed possible novel uses of cutting-edge…
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Some Ideas and Resources for Your Online Teaching
First, there was a delay. Then, there was a decision to go online for two weeks. Now, it looks like I may never actually…
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Reconsidering Quizlet
In 2017, I co-wrote an article, Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets, about the basics of using Quizlet to assist students with vocabulary…
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