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TOEIC-TOEFL score comparison. Two very different tests, one for academics, one for the workplace. However ETS has done an equivalency table showing how a person taking the TOEIC Listening & Reading test can typically be expected to do on the TOEFL test institutional version (TOEIC ITP). This equivalency table is linked to from our new TOEIC Central page. .

New global capabilities=global talent crisis. Lots of interesting, current stats are included in a new short whitepaper from GlobalEnglish and the Human Capital Institute. A final recommendation to help solve new workplace communication challenges: "Establishing metrics and measuring progress globally, regionally, and individually." Sounds like a job for TOEIC testing!

Business English site of the month. ."Teacher Larry Ferlazzo posts a website each day, typically though not always related to English language learning. His recent "Best of" listing is arranged by topic and includes a long list of favorite learning sites for speaking, writing, listening, and reading as well as economics/job skills and sites for creative teaching techniques such as learning English through art or music.

Testing: good for the brain in more ways than one. A new study to be published in Psychological Science journal shows that building the type of memory typically used in taking tests also improves all other forms of memory.  

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