Try your hand at our Christmas quiz. DPT expert, Lucas Gade, shares his experience taking the Life in the UK citizenship test earlier this year. It’s safe to say the experience was… well, eccentric.
Andrew Stokes explores the pressure to incorporate AI into the classroom. How can we do it in a way that genuinely benefits both learners and teachers?
Marlon Gomez, Jamestown’s academic director, shared their solution to combine the Dynamic Placement Test and Road to IELTS to create an effective learning journey for students.
Can motivation and self-regulation be taught? Martin Moore looks at the research, Clarity’s recipe for success, and what Duolingo gets wrong.
Could there be more to gaming than meets the eye? For Beau, language proficiency and gaming success go hand-in-hand.
Everyone wants a test to be valid. But what is validity and how do you tell if a test is valid or not?
This post explains what item analysis is, how we use it, and what you’ll find in a robust and reliable test.
English language testing is crucial in the petroleum industry. This is how one training organisation found the most suitable placement test.
At the ELITE conference in Malang, Indonesia last week Dr Adrian Raper explained why a placement test must be adaptive. This is a summary of his talk.
No one wants to be disadvantaged during a test. Here is a reminder of what students can expect when taking the Dynamic Placement Test on different devices.
The StudyStream English package offers students a semi-directed study program and offers teachers a tool to help their learners navigate the pitfalls of independent learning.
We discovered the hard way that generally accepted ‘rules’ for intonation are often misleading. Clear Pronunciation 2 balances ‘rules’ and ‘guidelines’. Here’s how.
This post looks at the issue of voices helping learners build confidence in their English pronunciation.
Help your students make the most of supplementary resources available. Try these 5 tips on how to introduce and sustain student engagement.
This is the story and outcomes of a team determined to learn Welsh. How we did it, what we learnt along the way, and what you can do to better understand your pre-A1 learners.
This series uncovers ideas and activities from British Council IELTS teaching centres around the world. Read on for three ideas from British Council Hong Kong.
This series uncovers ideas and activities from British Council IELTS teaching centres around the world. Read on for three ideas from British Council Greece.
This series uncovers ideas and activities from British Council IELTS teaching centres around the world. Read on for four lessons from British Council Vietnam.
On a visit to British Council Paris, Clarity’s Andrew Stokes talked to Tanguy Perrichot on providing IELTS support to universities in France. They discussed a successful approach to guided self-access.
Road to IELTS started in 2006. Over 40m study sessions later, how do we know the program is really helping test takers get the band score they need?