ESL and Pronunciation

TOEFL Writing and Speaking Are a lot like Doing Laundry

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” “Give me a power-packed TOEFL lesson!” Upon washing your dirty clothes for the week, you will most likely have the following colors: white, light, and dark. Additionally, you will have pants, shirts, T-shirts, undergarments, and so on. How you put away these clothes may …

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How to Use Better TOEFL Scores to Help You Pass the TOEFL iBT

Michael Buckhoff’s “7 Step System to Pass the TOEFL iBT Exam!” “Give me a power-packed TOEFL lesson!” Watch Videos: Pumpkin Patches and TOEFL iBT, Corn Mazes and TOEFL iBT As an English professor and TOEFL instructor, I have mixed bag of experiences when it comes to my profession. Sometimes, I have students who are unmotivated, …

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TOEFL iBT Reading, Speaking, and Writing: A Case Study of a Student from Better TOEFL Scores

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TOEFL iBT Reading: Answering Vocabulary Questions

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What Pronunciation Goals Should You Set Before Taking the TOEFL iBT?

Listen to this post:  What Pronunciation Goals Should You Set Before Taking the TOEFL iBT Before taking the TOEFL iBT, you should set some goals regarding your speaking and pronunciation abilities. Consider the following pronunciation proficiency continuum, a scale indicating your intelligibility or proficiency as a non-native speaker of English. The closer your score is …

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TOEFL iBT Pronunciation: Beware of Mono-syllabic Words

Listen to this post:  Beware of monosyllabic words To score well on TOEFL iBT speaking, you should have good pronunciation. Especially, you should make sure that your pronunciation does not prevent meaning. Typically, students struggle with pronunciation of multi-syllabic words such as individual, university, electricity, and autobiographical to name a few. But, even when these …

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