APEC chooses TOEIC. The prestigious Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will rely on volunteers screened using TOEIC, the gold standard for testing English for business/workplace settings. Read more about TOEIC to improve events, and how you can use the test on-site with employee, job candidates, and trainees too.

Language is more than words and structures. This illuminating article from Foreign Policy Journal discusses the importance of our cultural and linguistic backgrounds in the struggle to learn a new language. Shows why learning what "seems obvious" in one culture can be slow, and why ETS needs to do so much work to ensure that TOEIC tests assess ability fairly regardless of a test taker's native language. Be fair—use TOEIC rather than an in-house test in your placement and progress assessments

English Language Site of the Month. Wow, video resources galore for educators! Recently updated list from Technosphere gives descriptions of 100+ sources.

Friday Fun. Punctuation errors can lead to unexpectedly humorous messages. Can your students spot the problems in these sixteen signs? Captions to the right of each picture make the mistake clear.