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Assessing Writing Blog Post

Using course book material to assess young learners’ writing skills

11 January 2021 Elaine Boyd Young Learners Leave a comment

Young learners have a very different learning profile to adults and function at different levels cognitively, socially and emotionally. This suggests we should assess them by reflecting their specific ways of learning and learning needs. The writing skill can often be one of the most challenging skills for young learners,

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Assessing Speaking and Writing for Exam Success

20 March 2019 Elaine Boyd Young Learners One comment

These productive skills which require students to ‘perform’ can be the most challenging to assess because in many ways the assessment is always subjective. When we listen or read the students’ responses, we can wonder ‘What exactly is good pronunciation?’ or ‘What is a good answer to the task?’. This

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Four classroom assessment activities for young learners

7 December 2018 Elaine Boyd Young Learners 2 comments

Many teachers now have to monitor their learners’ progression – for themselves and for others, such as parents. But we don’t want to keep giving our young learners formal tests, so how can we check how well they are doing while also giving them good support to help them improve?

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Preparing Young Learners for Exam Success: Part Two

15 November 2018 Elaine Boyd Young Learners 2 comments

In her last blog post, Elaine Boyd described three strategies for preparing young learners for exam success. Now, Elaine will share three additional strategies to help students feel relaxed and confident in formal exams. As mentioned in my previous post, in order to do their best in a formal exam,

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Three Strategies for Preparing Young Learners for Exam Success

25 October 2018 Elaine Boyd Young Learners Leave a comment

Are you keen to help your young learners relax and feel comfortable with formal exams? Most of us are – but how do we go about this? We can’t keep practicing the test task with them – this is not good for their learning and doesn’t help them to really

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