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Learning Enhancers and Effective Learning Strategies Effective learning strategies have always been a part of my professional reflection. I have lost count of the times I have tried to clarify which strategies help in acquiring proficiency in a foreign language. Reflection is indeed a part of teaching, and after years of being in the profession…
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Whatever a students’ 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 the IELTS exam, so teachers familiar with the latter should try the test themselves, to find out what might trip the students up as they…
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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 that prospective teachers could fill. My response was that teachers need not look for specific gaps, as the main weakness of the overall market is simply a lack of qualified and…
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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 could use for university study, work and immigration — the TOEFL iBT® test. This world-renowned, gold standard test has grown into the worlds most accepted and respected English-language test, accepted in over 11,500…
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It’s no secret that English is the most widely spoken language on the planet—with a native speaker population of 370 million and a learner population of 1.5 billion worldwide, the language remains on an upward trend, oftentimes at the cost of linguistic diversity in regions that have historically had high levels of multilingualism. For example,…
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The Caribbean Sea encompasses over 7,000 islands, including the famous tourist destinations of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados. Taken all together, the Caribbean islands, sometimes referred to as the West Indies, are incredibly diverse, yet they share distinct historical traits, behaviors, and values which have created a Caribbean culture and identity. For countries like…
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