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Eng Lang forums. Tefl. Teacher Resources. Language Conferences Worldwide Upcoming events in language, linguistics, speech and hearing therapy, translation, TESOL and related fields. MASH. Yahoo MA TEFL Group. Corpus liguistics. Associations and journals. Academic grade conversions. The grading system in the UK can create agonies for American Students.
If a normally straight-A student recieves a 70 on his/her first paper, it's difficult to accept that a 70 in UK-terms is an A or a first. So here's a comparison to help prepare you for the grading shock! Students with an average of 70 or higher are awarded a first-class honours degree (equivalent to an A). Other degree categories are: an upper second (equivalent to A-/B+), a lower second (equivalent to a B) or a third class (equivalent to a C) honours degree. At the graduate level, students with a 70 or higher are awarded a master's degree with distinction. Source: Education UK.
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They are stored as Word documents so that they will be dynamic tools. You may download them and use them at your convenience. If you wish to contribute a new reference to one of these reference lists, or an entirely new reference list, please send the reference or the new reference list in APA format to info@tirfonline.org. Thank you! Please note: We have recently received feedback from some individuals who reported that they had trouble opening some of the reference lists below. Also, our reference lists seem to be best viewed using Internet Explorer or Firefox. World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching. September 2008 — Volume 12, Number 2 Varieties of English is a topic which has motivated much research and many publications, all investigating the relation between language and culture, language and identity, language and status.
There are already numerous compendia which enumerate varieties of English found in today’s world and contain thorough descriptions and meticulous analyses of characteristic features of each variety. Examples include the 2388-page Handbook of Varieties of English (Kortmann & Schneider, 2005), the 2000-page, four volume Varieties of English. An Interactive Textbook (2008), The Oxford Guide to World English (McArthur, 2003), and The Handbook of World Englishes (Kachru, Kachru & Nelson, 2006). Typically commenting on sociolinguistic aspects of English’s proliferating variety, most of these monumental publications (Kachru et al., 2008 being an exception) do not devote much attention to pedagogical issues. About the Language Testing Resources Site. The Language Testing Resources site was first published on 1 May 1995, and the first frames version of the site was launched on 20 July 1996.
Both of these sites were basic, and so the second frames version with much improved navigation was released on 26th March 2001, and was substantially upgraded in March and April of 2004 and August 2008. The use of frames started to go out use in web site design from around 2005. I didn't abandon frames quickly, as I liked the consistent look and feel that it provided. But when I built a much improved search engine for the site in 2009 the frames version really did become obsolete.
So the current design was introduced in April 2009. So, May 1995 when this site was first set up wasn't all that long ago!