Jane, a teacher with English Success Academy, shares her 5 tips that will help you prepare for the TOEFL test. Jane talks about vocabulary building, speaking more clearly and thinking quickly under stress.
IELTS prep: Ways to Extend Your IELTS Speaking Part 2 Answer
Below is a guest post from David Pattinson, a certified ESL Exam Prep Coach specializing in IELTS. This blog post will be useful for those interested in taking IELTS. If you need any extra help with your prep, you can reach out to David here. You can listen to the audio recording of the blog post here: Students often complain …
We’re digitizing Delta’s TOEFL iBT best selling course
Instant access to Delta’s Key to the TOEFL iBT for students and teachers, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Click to download the Press Release We’re excited to announce that English Success Academy has licensed the rights to digitize and distribute one of the most popular books that is published by Delta Publishing Company, Nancy Gallagher’s Delta’s …
How much training should a TOEFL teacher have?
Do you know that we have been developing our own teacher training program since mid-2014 and all teachers who we recommend are officially certified as ESL Exam Prep Coaches? In other words, they have successfully completed the 90-hour training program How to Teach Exams led by Jaime Miller and follow the exam-teaching methodology that gets results. If you’re curious to learn more …
The Process to Erase Old Errors
Do you know what a “fossilized” language error is? A fossil is an ancient organism that has been preserved in the earth’s crust. It sounds like a TOEFL lecture topic, right? ? In other words, if something is fossilized, it is very old and incapable of change. English teachers sometimes say that students’ errors with pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary become …
Would our 2016 plan help you finish TOEFL faster?
Below is a special message from Jaime Miller, director of ESA. She’s the creator of Advanced Speaking Guide for Scores of 26+, Right Notes and the 24+ Writing Tutorial. She’s taught hundreds of TOEFL iBT students from over 30 countries and more than 20 language groups. We’re in the final hours of 2015! This time of year always makes me …
“How to Teach Exams” program is released
On August 25, 2015, Jaime officially launched “How to Teach Exams” as a group program. Helping ambitious exams teachers connect with each other, unleash their full potential and become as effective as possible is such an important task. A new generation of exams teachers will be supporting students on their way to success and we are glad to be part …
Free Lesson: How to Pronounce the 5 Magic Words You Need for TOEFL iBT
To score high on the TOEFL iBT, you need to sound accurate and fluent. There are major words a lot of students from all language groups make mistakes with. The updated “5 Magic Words” video teaches you how to pronounce five of the most common and important words for the speaking section of the TOEFL. No matter what country you …
Live, Free Class: 3 Factors that Create Your Accent (and how to control them to get 26+ on TOEFL iBT speaking)
On Tuesday, April 7th, you can attend Jaime’s live, free online video class. You can watch the broadcast from anywhere in the world. Even if you cannot attend live, register so that you can watch the recording later. 3 Factors That Create Your Accent: Learn what these are so you control your accent and learn to speak how TOEFL iBT graders prefer. Then …
How to guarantee 26+ at TOEFL iBT speaking.
Teaching TOEFL iBT is my full-time job; it’s not a hobby or an occasional lesson topic. I was a new TOEFL teacher back in 2010. I’ve taught hundreds of TOEFL students from over 30 countries and more than 20 language groups. I give students far more detailed information about why their TOEFL iBT Speaking scores are just 23-24 than the …