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The day Glenn Greenwald came up in a conversation that was not about politics — or was it?

5 de agosto de 2019

“What do you think of Glenn Greenwald’s Portuguese?” That question came out of the blue to me, but there I was, chatting to an air traffic controller before we started his English proficiency interview about a third person’s Portuguese language proficiency. I thought of a video I saw after the first Vaza Jato news: “Well,...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

assessment, CEFR, criteria, language proficiency, needs analysis, reflections about education

Testing Times

5 de setembro de 2017

by Dominic Walters

I feel for test designers. They have an impossible task. To design a test of language proficiency that is considered valid and reliable by the various stakeholders involved in the testing process. This is particularly true of the test takers themselves. And it was in relation to these people that two stories recently caught my...Read More

Language testing & assessment

International English Language Testing System (IELTS), language proficiency, Pearson Test of English (PTE), test

What should come first: CAE or CELTA? A B.A. or improving my language proficiency?

5 de dezembro de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

I’ll admit to having mixed feelings about this, but I’ve reached that age when I’ve turned into a kind of Agony Aunt to my younger colleagues and friends. The 20-somethings come to me with their career choices and, boy, do they ask difficult questions! Their fork in the road often goes along the lines of,...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

b.a., career, CELTA, exams, faculdade, language proficiency, Letras, proficiency exams, teacher development, tesol certificate

One flew east, one flew west, and NNESTs flew everywhere.

17 de junho de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

The challenge of being a non-native English speaker in a native English speaking world I recently came across EFL teacher James Taylor’s blog post about NNESTs’ struggle to be respected as English teachers by students and employers. In his guest blog post, James lists a number of advantages of being a NNEST over a...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Brazil, career, James Taylor, language proficiency, native speakers, NEST, NNEST, non-native speakers

It’s only English…

2 de março de 2014

by elainehodgson

Last week I happened to read a post in a well-known Brazilian newspaper blog explaining that several students who have been granted scholarships in the program Science without Borders are at risk of an early and compulsory return to Brazil. The reason? They have not achieved the minimum proficiency in English to be able to...Read More

Career

EFL, language proficiency, Science without Borders