Excerpted from “The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students,” by Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski, with permission from the authors. Having the confidence to ...

SINGAPORE: Secondary schools are organising more public speaking activities to prepare students for a revised English oral exam component that will test how well they communicate. The change is set to ...

Adding an oral exam to Leaving Cert English is a good idea if it is done properly. It is a sensible move given that, aside from traditional supervised pen-and-paper exams, orals are the least ...

Leaving Certificate students could face an English oral exam as part of planned reforms to the curriculum. Plans for the revised English exam have been set out in a new consultation document released ...

Schools are taking steps to help students become effective communicators. To prepare students for the new English oral examination changes - set to kick in this year for GCE O-level students - schools ...

Sweeping changes to two key Leaving Cert subjects – English and accounting – look set to be delayed for at least a year after education authorities acknowledged that more time is needed to prepare.

University students are more likely to pass oral exams if they are taken at around midday, according to a study of more than 100,000 assessments. Carmelo Vicario at the University of Messina, Italy, ...