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April 2017
Teaching in Practice Readers' Poll Upcoming Events
Resource for Teaching Exam Services Burning Questions
       
 

What is Lexical Proficiency?

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English for the Workplace.

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Go Native! Use phrasal verbs.

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Teaching in Practice
 

Lexical Proficiency

There is general agreement among researchers about using global models for assessing lexical proficiency. The models use breadth and depth of lexical knowledge; however, there are exceptions when using these two dimensions. The research also says that in natural language production, there are two categories namely lexical diversity and lexical sophistication. This article examines the research study about lexical proficiency and its implications for teachers.

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Phrasal Verbs

Why are phrasal verbs so useful in helping language learners to improve their vocabulary? More importantly, how can they help students begin to sound far more natural and improve their IELTS speaking proficiency?

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Readers' Poll
 
 
 

As a teacher, how often is the flexible use of idiomatic language taught and used in your classes?

1) 24/7
2) tonnes
3) now and then
4) once in a blue moon

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Upcoming Events
 
 

English in the Workplace

This course is for people who are learning English and who are interested in developing English language skills for employability and workplace contexts. It will help job seekers and young professionals with the English they need. This type of course would also be very suitable for candidates wishing to take the IELTS general training module for work and immigration purposes.

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2017 IATELF Conference

The 51st IATEFL Conference will be held in Glasgow in April 2017. The IATEFL International Annual Conference & Exhibition is one of the key events in the English Language Teaching calendar. It attracts more than 2,500 ELT professionals from more than 100 countries, and involves a 4-day programme of around 500 talks, workshops and symposiums. It offers attendees a unique opportunity to meet leading theorists and writers, and exchange ideas with fellow professionals from all sectors of the ELT industry.

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TEACHERS, SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE!

Are you a teacher with great experience, advice and suggestions that you would like to share with others? Then we would love to hear from you!

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Resource for Teaching
 
 
 

I wanna talk about…

The British Council LearnEnglish website is packed full of free useful resources to help students improve their English proficiency, which will of course with time and practice help them to increase their IELTS band scores.

One section is called ‘I wanna talk about…’ and features videos to watch or audio to listen to, with a transcript, and related vocabulary and question tasks. It’s brilliant for students practicing for IELTS because it can be used to develop listening skills, topic vocabulary, language awareness and it is graded into different levels of ability. Also, this can be useful for students to give them ideas for developing speaking, especially when they need to focus on improving fluency and extending their answers.

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Exam Services
 
 

New test center in Xihua University

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Relax test registration limit

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More test seats for UKVI

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Burning Questions!

Do you have questions about teaching, English or IELTS that you would really love an answer to? Send them to
colin.barnett@britishcouncil.org.cn or
mark.o'sullivan@britishcouncil.org.cn

Remember, we also have a Frequently Asked Questions list on www.chinaielts.org, for you to visit!

 

Following our recent workshops, we wanted to address some frequently asked questions that would be useful for all to know.

“Will candidates lose marks in reading / listening if they use all capital letters, or use only lower-case letters, for their answers?”

This is a very common question with regards to the proper form of answers for reading and listening. The short answer is: no, it does not matter. Answers are accepted in either form, even for items like proper nouns (official names). In some of the very early Cambridge IELTS past-paper books (books 1 – 3) there were guidelines about the necessity of proper capitalisation. However, in more recent publications you will notice that this rule has been updated and clarified. The one area that does matter (and one where candidates may often lose easy marks) is on the proper form and spelling of answers. For example, for something like Section1 of the IELTS listening test, recording dates or times are often a common feature. If the answer is: ‘1st November’, then candidates must write the answer in full-form with proper spelling. Abbreviations and note-form are not accepted. So, recording the answer as: 1 Nov; Nov 1; 1st Nov; 1/11; 11/1, would not be counted as correct.


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