Learning to teach ESL

One of the readings we were assigned to read this week is the introduction from the book Developing materials for language teaching, which was written by Brian Tomlinson. The introduction discusses teaching materials and the issues associated with their development and evaluation. The issues include what should drive the development of materials, who should develop materials, how materials should be developed and evaluated,...

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One of the activities for this unit required us to fill in a table about assessing productive and receptive skills. Receptive skills are skills that learners develop to take in and process information. They are listening and reading skills. Productive skills are skills that learners use to communicate information. They are speaking and writing. It is easier to assess productive skills since they...

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One of the readings we were assigned to read this week is a PowerPoint document that was presented by researcher Susan Webb at a TESL conference in 2017. The presentation is called "Creating Effective Rubrics." It discusses the differences between formative and summative assessments, the importance and usefulness of rubrics, the elements of the Canadian Language Benchmarks that should be integrated into rubrics,...

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One of the readings we were assigned this week is a chapter in Brown and Lee (2015) called "Language Assessment: Principles and Issues." The chapter is about the shared principles and features of well-designed tests and assessments. These principles include practicality, reliability, validity, authenticity, and washback. The chapter also discusses the types of tests and assessments that are used in language learning classrooms....

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Summary of assessment This assessment is used to measure the writing skills of students at the CLB 2 level. The subject of this assessment is the classroom and assesses students’ ability to share information by describing their class in written form. Students are required to write a few words to complete a short, guided text or answer simple questions to describe a personal...

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