USING VIDEO FOR DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS
INTRODUCTION Many young learners nowadays are visual and auditory learners who are also generally quite computer literate, have no problems…
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Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
The examiner was pacing up and down the aisle in the examination room which was gradually getting crowded. Nearly all…
Why Test and not Assess?
In the ELT community, there are so many opinions when it comes to Tests & Exams. There is a major…
Don’t Panic! It’s Just an Exam!
Five Essential Approaches to Test Taking Is it that time of the year again? My, oh, my, how time flies!…
Grading Exam Papers: Dismantling Your Teaching
Summer of 2021 was a disillusioning experience: working as an exam marker brought me before grave teaching decisions of the…
E Class? Who Cares! Let’s Just Skip over to Lower!
Since its conception, the CEFR (Common European Framework) has offered a reference for languages as regards learning, teaching and assessment.…
Exams, exams, exams stress…perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
It’s this time of the year! Again! Another examination period is coming and with that stress, pressure, anxiety, lack of…
Exam-Prep: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The exam period is looming on the horizon, while practice tests, vocabulary lists, and more exam-related instruction begin to…
Exam Time and the teaching is…
It is not the first time ELT NEWS focuses on language exams and it won’t be the last. Our…
IELTS online – the most trusted English test, soon from the comfort of your home
Get ready for IELTS Online, a flexible new way to take your IELTS Academic test. English language test IELTS has…