Posts tagged essay
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Business English Vocabulary: Up To
Recently, on a language education website that shall remain unnamed, I saw an offer: “learn a language in 30 days.” This claim is shocking enough, but what really attracted my attention was in the details: the learner could obtain “up to one 30-minute lesson daily, for 30 days.” The original source used bolding like this:…
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The Evil Of Testing Is A Straw Man
If there is one theme I find myself seeing over and over again, it is that standardized tests are evil. Time and time again, I am reading claims that testing is ruining education and preventing teachers from doing their jobs. By forcing teachers to “teach for the test” rather than teach the skills ostensibly being…