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Second thoughts on English and how she's taught.
Added: August 07, 2007
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New issues of Contact available

I'm now into my second year as editor of TESL Ontario's

Education First's English Proficiency Index

Last year, I blogged about the first English Proficiency Index here. Education First has now released their second index, and they're getting some good publicity out of it (I'm linking to them). The same problems as last year occur: self selection of participants, and need for a computer with internet access to do the test. There's also no data on test reliability and no validity arguments. Still, with

ER-Central.com

Another new and potentially useful site:Extensive Reading Central is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing an Extensive Reading and Extensive Listening approach to foreign and second language learning. It was started by Dr. Rob Waring of Note Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan and Dr. Charles Browne of Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan as a free service to the EFL community.This site will consolidate a number of existing sites, including Rob Waring's pages robwaring.org/



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