ELAINE BOYD
COURSE CONSULTANT
English Learning
WEBINAR LIBRARY
PREPARING YOUNG LEARNERS FOR EXAM SUCCESS
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OVERVIEW
Do your young learners need to take formal assessments? How do they feel about this? We know our students can often become worried and nervous when being assessed, which affects their performance. We can help by creating an environment in which our students can be relaxed and feel confident in any exam situation.
In this presentation, we’ll look at exactly what is being assessed in different exam tasks and offer strategies teachers can use to prepare young learners for those tasks and increase their confidence. We’ll also consider how we can assess speaking and writing activities and provide ideas for monitoring ongoing progression in order to help learners improve.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elaine Boyd has been involved in assessment design and quality assurance for over 30 years working for a range of international exam boards. She has been especially concerned with the impact of assessments in the classroom and worked closely with teachers and teacher educators delivering courses in assessment literacy in Europe, India and SE Asia and has published articles in this field. She has been Visiting Professor at the Universitat Politecnica in Valencia with responsibility for developing a framework for EMI. Her research includes intercultural communication and pragmatics and her Ph.D. investigated spoken language using corpus data. She is currently a post-graduate tutor at The Institute of Education at University College London. Elaine has authored several exam coursebooks for a range of age groups for leading international publishers and is a Course Consultant for Look, a seven-level primary series from National Geographic Learning.
