IELTS

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) tests how fluent you are in the English language. People who take the test take the Academic Module or the General Training Module. The academic one is for people who want to go to university. The general one is for people who want to do other training or want to get work experience. People who want to emigrate to a country that uses English also take the general one.

Most universities in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States accept the IELTS. Many professional companies do as well.

English language teaching
Approaches	Communicative approach Comprehension approach Dogme language teaching Lexical approach Natural approach Sociocultural learning theory Whole language learning
Methods	Audio-lingual method Community language learning CALL Content-based instruction CLIL Direct Method Extensive reading Grammar-translation method Language immersion Pimsleur system PPP Silent way Suggestopaedia Task-based language learning
Techniques	Back-chaining Dictogloss Jigsaw techniques Shadowing Total physical response
Key concepts	Critical period hypothesis English as a lingua franca Input hypothesis Fossilization Interlanguage Language transfer Learnability/teachability hypothesis Needs analysis Output hypothesis Second-language acquisition Syllabus World Englishes
Assessment	Language assessment CEFR DIALANG IELTS TOEFL TOEIC UCLES
Professional organizations	IATEFL TESOL
Important people	Betty Azar H. Douglas Brown Pit Corder Jim Cummins Rod Ellis Stephen Krashen Diane Larsen-Freeman Michael Lewis Paul Nation Alastair Pennycook Patricia A. Richard-Amato Jack C. Richards Wilga Rivers Earl Stevick Scott Thornbury Henry Widdowson

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