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What is IELTS

New Technological Applications for Foreign and Second Language Learning and Teaching
The English language testing system is the world’s most popular English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration. IELTS assesses all of the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), and is designed to reflect how one will use English at study, at work, at play, and in one’s new life abroad.
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Investigating Learner Autonomy and 21st Century Skills in Blended Tech-Enhanced Language Learning
Farhana Ahmed (York University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2591-3.ch006
Abstract
This chapter reports on a study that examines learners' beliefs towards technology use with specific focus on the development of learner autonomy in a blended context within a post-secondary English for academic purposes (EAP) program. The growth of post-secondary EAP programs along with the researchers' awareness and interest in leveraging technological tools in support of student-centered learning motivated this research. Findings reveal students' overall positive attitude towards technology use and adoption of some 21st century skills in learning English. When innovative pedagogical methods are supported by intervention in learning, a heightened critical awareness and movement towards learner autonomy was observed among students through fostering of some 21st century competencies. The chapter concludes with recommendations for teacher education in tech-enhanced pedagogy, teacher-intervention in educating students about the rationale for technology use, leveraging students' digital resources and ongoing critical and reflective teaching practices.
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Teaching Global Competence, Creating Global Citizens: Critical Citizenship Education in Higher Education
International English Language Test System. An English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration.
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The Readiness, Challenges, and Expected Support for Chinese Students' Overseas Study: A Focus on Business and Management Programmes
International English Language Testing System, with similar function to TOEFL, is an English language proficiency test; the IELTS score is recognised by many institutes especially those in English-speaking countries as one of the student recruitment criteria.
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Multilingual International Students From the Perspective of Faculty: Contributions, Challenges, and Support
International English Language Testing System. An international, standardised language test developed to measure proficiency in the English language whose scores are used for admission of speakers of English as an additional language to an English-medium institution.
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Non-Native English-Speaking Students' Perspectives of Culture, Language, and Academic Success: Narratives of Graduate Students in the Southern United States
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