Most TEFL induction courses start with a lesson in an exciting and remote language spoken by one of the course instructors: Pashto, perhaps, or Wolof or Indonesian. It’s a valuable exercise, helping the trainee to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge a Pre-A1...
Your thought-provoking Arrivals in English questions answered.
Speakers of tonal languages such as Chinese, Thai or Yoruba face particular challenges with English intonation. Andrew Stokes examines why and how we can help.
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English language testing is crucial in the petroleum industry. This is how one training organisation found the most suitable placement test.
The voices we hear in day-to-day life aren’t always what they seem. In this post, we’ll identify the benefits of using computer generated voices as a resource for teachers, students and publishers – then we’ll ask whether the technology is up to the job yet.
We discovered the hard way that generally accepted ‘rules’ for intonation are often misleading. Clear Pronunciation 2 balances ‘rules’ and ‘guidelines’. Here’s how.
Can we, and should we, make English tests more international? Andrew Stokes explores the possibilities.
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