TOEFL Teaching: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores

Whatever a student’s ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they will not do their best. The TOEFL is quite unlike […]
How to Teach IELTS Speaking

How to Teach IELTS Speaking When you have to prepare your students for the IELTS exam, you’re up for a task that is far from easy, especially when it comes […]
Teaching IELTS Speaking: Tips and Tricks

By John Kenmuir Recently, IELTS has become one of the major language tests worldwide. As a result, markets have appeared, both virtually and in the physical world, to cope with […]
Adapting Textbooks for EFL Students

Course books are the mainstay of any course of English language study, providing the essential grounding in areas such as the four skills, vocabulary, grammar and learner training. However, coursebooks […]
IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation

IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 4 – Pronunciation. Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking this time at Pronunciation. If you […]
IELTS Speaking – Grammatical Range and Accuracy

IELTS speaking – Grammatical Range and Accuracy. Welcome back to my IELTS speaking series looking at the speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t read the previous part of this series on […]
IELTS speaking – What is Cambridge Looking for? Part 2 – Lexical Resource

IELTS speaking – what is Cambridge looking for? Part 2 – Lexical Resource. Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my […]
IELTS Speaking: Part 1 – Fluency and Coherence

IELTS speaking: Part 1 – Fluency and Coherence In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to the IELTS speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t seen it, you might […]
IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors: an Introduction

IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors: An Introduction What is IELTS? If you’ve never heard of IELTS, you’ll probably come across it sooner or later – it’s the world’s most popular English […]