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course for TESOL English language teaching students

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course for TESOL English language teaching students This study refers to some positive and negative effects of oral assessment applied to a literature course. The experiment was conducted in a north Cyprus university English language teaching (ELT) department, during the spring semester of the 2016-2 017 academic year. The data were collected from the ELT students taking the Survey to English Literature course (SELC) during the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year, who were asked to fill in an open ended questionnaire about the intervention, and semi structured interviews conducted with the co-examiners. In the ELT department under discussion, almost all the exams are written, and the students do not have too many opportunities to speak during the courses or during their mid-term exam. The results show the benefits and d

how to speaking of IELTS of English Courses

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how to speaking of IELTS of English Courses This article explores the instruction of college English enrichment (selective) courses in e-learning environment. After analyzing the necessity and feasibility of adopting an Internet-based college English enrichment course teaching in e-learning environment, the paper presents the college English enrichment course designing principle and the shared characteristics based on the college English teaching reform which has been carried out in Wenzhou University. Then, it discusses the teaching mode and teaching methodology of the Internet-based college English enrichment course. Finally, the author exposes the implications of e-learning environment for college English en richment course teaching in Chinese provincial universities. how to speaking of IELTS of English Courses In the e-learning environment the colle

How to Cambridge English Scores to Test

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How to Cambridge English Scores to Test The Cambridge English test , produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), has been in use in institutions of higher American education since the 1960s as a means of measuring incoming international students’ English proficiency. But like any test, the PTE is imperfect. For instance, whereas a high PTE score may be sufficient to admit an international student to an American graduate school, many colleges and universities require more rigorous proof of a student’s English proficiency—often in the form of a passing score on a school-specific oral assessment—if he seeks employment as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). How to Cambridge English Scores to Test   To mitigate this risk, forecasting models which use the PTE sub-scores of Speaking, Listening, Writing, and Reading to forecast SPEAK test outcome ar

GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION OF IELTS SPOKEN ENGLISH

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  GRAMMATICAL ERROR DETECTION OF IELTS SPOKEN ENGLISH Automatic language assessment and learning systems are required to support the global growth in English language learning. They need to be able to provide reliable and meaningful feedback to help learners develop their skills. This paper considers the question of detecting “grammatical” errors in non-native spoken English as a first step to providing feedback on a learner’s use of the language. A stateof-the-art deep learning based grammatical error detection (GED) system designed for written texts is investigated on free speaking tasks across the full range of proficiency grades with a mix of first languages (L1s). This presents a number of challenges. grammatical error detection of ielts spoken english  Free speech contains disfluencies that disrupt the spoken language flow but are not grammatical errors. The lower the level of the learner the more these both will occur which makes the underlying task of automa