¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: A job for which teachers are well rated. Skills developed in class are in demand from exam providers.

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

A job for which teachers are well rated. Skills developed in class are in demand from exam providers.

Max de Lotbinière
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 12 April 2011 14.00 BST
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Examination skills ... computer-based assessment has not dented the strong demand for teacher-based evaluation. Photograph: John E Fletcher and Anthony B Stewart/Corbis

Computer-based testing has made big advances in English language assessment in recent years, but the future remains bright for human examiners.

Last year the Ielts test of English was taken over 1.5m times and the speaking and writing sections of the test were evaluated by up to 5,500 examiners who assessed candidates in one-to-one interviews or read and marked their scripts.

Cambridge Esol, which is part of the consortium responsible for Ielts, produces its own suite of English language exams and employs either directly, in the UK, or via local tests centres, about 15,000 examiners to carry out face-to-face oral assessment and to mark written work for exams ranging from tests for young learners to its advanced-level certificate.

So the demand for examiners remains strong, but what can humans bring to assessment that computers can't?

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English