Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Webinar: The Keys to Success in Teaching English to Young Learners, April 24

How do you deal with the challenge of teaching Business English to people who are preparing, through their studies, to enter the global business environment? What kind of Business English do they need? Business communication skills are important, but studying business at degree level and beyond also requires learners to develop sophisticated reading and writing skills in order to deal with complex material on a wide range of topics, and to become familiar with key concepts and related vocabulary.

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Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Webinar: Latest Trends in Student Language Assessment, May 22

How do you deal with the challenge of teaching Business English to people who are preparing, through their studies, to enter the global business environment? What kind of Business English do they need? Business communication skills are important, but studying business at degree level and beyond also requires learners to develop sophisticated reading and writing skills in order to deal with complex material on a wide range of topics, and to become familiar with key concepts and related vocabulary.

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Vol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy’ by Vahid Aryadoust

Language self-appraisal (or self-assessment) is a process by which students evaluate their own language competence. This article describes the relationship between students’ self-appraisals and their performance on a measure of academic listening (AL). Following Aryadoust and Goh (2011), AL was defined as a multi-componential construct including cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, note-taking, rating input to other materials, knowledge of lecture structure, and memory and concentration.

Continue ReadingVol. 5 Issue 7 – Research Paper: ‘Reliability of Second Language Listening Self-Assessments: Implications for Pedagogy’ by Vahid Aryadoust