ESL Placement Tests – An Analysis
ESL Placement Tests -An Analysis How accurate is the placement test at your school? How do you know? Can the data gathered through the placement test be used in other […]
Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking
Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking this time at Pronunciation. If you haven’t read my previous instalment on Grammatical Range […]
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking 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 […]
Lexical Resource – IELTS Speaking
Lexical Resource IELTS Speaking Hi everyone, welcome to the third installment of our analysis of IELTS speaking grading criteria. In my last article, we looked Fluency and Coherence. If you haven’t […]
Fluency and Coherence – IELTS Speaking
Fluency and Coherence IELTS Speaking In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to the IELTS speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to have […]
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 […]
Crafting Powerful Media for Your Business, with Laura Wilkes
Laura Wilkes is a video and podcast producer who helps educators record content to grow their community. Before becoming a producer and setting up Communicating for Impact, Laura taught English, […]
From JET to CEO: Ryan Hagglund on Building Successful Schools
Ryan Hagglund is the owner of MY English School , which operates nine locations in Yamagata and Hyogo prefectures, serving over 1,200 students, as well as Yamagata’s only English immersion […]
The Unplanned Lesson by Ian Roth and Paul Wicking
The Unplanned Lesson by Ian Roth and Paul Wicking The Unplanned Lesson was published in late 2023 by University of Michigan Press, which has previously published some brilliant titles for […]
Learning Language Online: Reflections And Reviews
Learning Language Online: Reflections And Reviews I’m an English teacher, but the first language I was taught was French. Like many, I started at middle school and continued to GCSE […]