December 2010 TOEIC USA Business Newsletter

Your source for news and ideas related to skills development, assessment, and employment of non-native English speakers. We are the U.S. distributor of the TOEIC family of tests, the gold standard in testing language proficiency for the workplace developed by the Educational Testing Service. Learn more about our work.

 

Improved TOEIC Test Pricing Policy Provides New Flexibility. You can now order the TOEIC tests you expect to need over the course of a year at once, whether you have exact dates and group testing numbers yet or not. So long as you order 150 or more tests, you'll get your tests whenever you need them, receiving a significant bulk discount and locking in your price. Email us for details.

 

Business English Lessons. An astonishing number of free online English lessons are available from teacher Sean Banfield: "listen-a minute" lesson plans, news-focused lessons, and more. His latest site teaches business English through lessons on dozens of corporations such as Adidas and Harley Davidson.

 

Funny Job Interview Mistakes. Some examples of bad business English and just plain bad judgment, collected by Anthony Kucheriavy.   

 

More Info and Ideas for You Our Facebook page for English language learners has moved to a new location. "Like" us now and let language learners in your organization know; it's a great way to build English skills. English4Success also tweets information for human resources and other recruitment/management professionals at @BizEnglish4HR and for English language teachers and other education professionals on @English4Success .

 

 
 

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