I found the following story from the ETS "Success Stories" files about the TOEIC® Listening & Reading test particularly interesting for two reasons. First of all, it describes problems with in-house placement tests similar to those we frequently hear about from our clients. Second, it discusses an advantage that I don't think people always think about in relation to TOEIC tests the speed with which our university and other institutional clients can get information back on the English language skills of their students or employees.

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If you haven’t heard of BESIG (and I hadn’t until a few months back when I started following their Twitter posts) they are the business English special interest group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL). IATEFL is based in the U.K. and draws the bulk of their membership from outside the U.S. but, like TESOL in the U.S., they are a global organization useful for English teachers worldwide. And, in my opinion,...

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