Your source for news and ideas related to teaching, assessment, and job skills development for 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.
 

No-Cost, Limited Enrollment Teacher Workshops coming in May. Learn about preparing individuals for the TOEIC tests and improving language learning with new instructional tools and strategies. Enrollment in these two ETS Propell™  one-day workshops, to be held in Princeton, NJ, will each be limited to fifteen teachers/trainers in order to allow sharing of ideas and interactive work with ETS expert consultants. The first workshop will focus primarily on means of improving listening and reading skills, the second on speaking and writing skills. Instruction and materials will be provided without charge to the selected participants. Please let us know now if you or one of your colleagues may be interested in attending one or both workshops and we will keep you informed as planning continues.
 

TOEIC testing breaks records in 2010. Eli Lilly, CAMCO, the G20 Summit, the University of Macao, and hundreds of other organizations and enterprises began using TOEIC during the year to assess and improve employee language skills, joining what are now over 10,000 institutional clients testing 6 million individuals annually. Read more.

A competition with awards totaling $500 million per year for two-year college and other training programs assisting displaced workers has now been formally announced by the https://");">U.S. Department of Labor, with a proposal deadline of April 21.  If your program will include English language skills development, including TOEIC testing could provide a double advantage: it provides both a reliable measure of program success as required by the grants and also offers a widely recognized job market credential for program graduates. Contact us to discusshttps://");">. 
 

Business English site of the month.   The Internet TESL Journal   includes dozens of links designed specifically to help students and teachers of business English (as well as plenty of its own content). 

For better test scores, students put worries into words.     A new study from the University of Chicago     finds that test takers achieve significantly better scores when they write for ten minutes about their anxieties just before testing.  The study did not look specifically at language learners, but recording worries in English could perhaps give an even bigger advantage by providing a "warm-up" for writing questions ahead. 

Next TOEIC Speaking & Writing Test Date: March 5. One of two dates available in the continental U.S. before students graduate. Registration information, dates, and current locations can be found on our site. 

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