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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / August 2005Hi
Hello everybody, Well, I've just join in and could thought of nothing special to say. so to begin with I'm an Applied Linguistics Graduate. Would write more later! > Hello everybody, > > Well, I've just join in and could thought of nothing special to say. so > to begin with I'm an Applied Linguistics Graduate. Would write more > later! Greetings and welcome! Where do you work? Thanks. I work in Abu Dabi right now. What about you? > Thanks. I work in Abu Dabi right now. What about you? Athens, Greece, for the last five years. Do you teach any kinds of specific classes in general? My field of focus is high-stakes test preparation: generally, I get teenagers and young adults ready for public examinations like Cambridge Main Suite tests, TOEFL, TOEIC, that sort of thing. That's great. Yeah, I teach Methodology and Psycholinguistics presently. My main interest is Psycho, though. Communication strategies lets say. Do you do test construction as well? > That's great. Yeah, I teach Methodology and Psycholinguistics > presently. My main interest is Psycho, though. Communication strategies > lets say. Do you do test construction as well? ABSOLUTELY NOT. I have to maintain a passing familiarity with Lyle S. Bachman and company in order to understand many of the stated aims of Cambridge ESOL, but I am most definitely not involved in test design. The evil that has been done to Greece by the botched work of psychometricians in service to the arrogant belief that language proficiency as a phenomenon CAN be rated, marked and graded objectively is profound. Yes, I know, theoreticians humbly protest that indeed, their work is far from done and that an utterly objective view of language proficiency has never truly been their aim, but I work in a country where a teenager's family pays five thousand euros in order for that teenager to be prepared for a single test like the FCE. If you follow the conversation of the driver less and watch the meter more around here, you learn all kinds of things. So, I am only interested in how standardized tests are put together to the extent necessary to beat them. Are you familiar with how Cambridge ESOL does its research and development? Hi, Yup, i've done a paper on Cambridge ESOL. I'll mail it to ya in a couple of days if u like. I agree with what u have said abt Greece and the way things go on nowadays. I thought thats the case in the middle east only!!!! Are u originally from greece? Send away! Yes and no. I was born here to Greek parents but I left when I was two years old and I grew up in the States, far enough away from the Greek community to commit the ultimate sin and study the Son of the Morning's language and literature. > Hi, > Yup, i've done a paper on Cambridge ESOL. I'll mail it to ya in a > couple of days if u like. > I agree with what u have said abt Greece and the way things go on > nowadays. I thought thats the case in the middle east only!!!! > Are u originally from greece? |
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