Cambridge Day - free online webinar - August 6th

14-07-2022

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Deadline for registration: July 31st



What's the best way to assess speaking?
What criteria should I use?
What impact has 2020 had on candidates' results?

Join us and Cambridge University Press and Assessment on this free online webinar, which will address these (and other) questions and will focus on key aspects of speaking assessment, as well as on candidates’ results after the pandemic.

Timetable

8.20 - Waiting room

8.30 - 10.15 - Cambridge English

Cambridge English Qualifications: from Pre A1 to A2 - Assessing the speaking components. Presenter: Olga Simoniello

10.30 - 11.30 - Build Back Better: lessons learnt and a way forward. Presenter: Pablo Toledo

11.30 - Raffle


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PRESENTERS

Olga Simoniello
Olga is a teacher of English and translator graduated from Instituto Superior Nº 8 "Alte. G. Brown". She has been a teacher of all levels at Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa de Santa Fe since 1987. She has also been a teacher at Instituto Superior de Profesorado Nº 1 "E. G. de Cervera since 1990. There, she teaches Taller de Lengua, Estudio Comparado de las Gramáticas Inglesa y Castellana, and Historia de los siglos XVIII y XIX.
Olga has been a Cambridge Assessment English Speaking Examiner since 1996; she has examined all levels from Young Learners to C2: Proficiency, including the Business qualifications. Furthermore, she has been a Cambridge Assessment English presenter since 2012. And, last year, she completed the Cambridge Assessment Network and Research online course "Introducing thePrinciples of Assessment".

Talk:
Cambridge English Qualifications: from Pre A1 to A2 - Assessing the speaking components.

The seminar will focus on exploring some issues connected with speaking as a skill to be assessed. It will also help teachers become more familiar with the Speaking Assessment Scales across the levels of this Seminar, and develop their awareness of the usefulness of these scales as a tool to describe and analyse their learners’ speaking skills. Lastly, videos will be shared to discuss performance and assessment of candidates taking the speaking tests.


Pablo Toledo
Pablo Toledo is an English teacher and teacher trainer (IES "Joaquín V. González"). He holds a Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Assessment from the University of Cambridge and a Diploma in Education Policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Before joining Cambridge Assessment English, he managed projects in the areas of remote teaching, internationalisation of higher education and language teaching to refugees for the British Council and led the Education department of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper. He is the vice-president of LAALTA (Latin American Association of Language Testing and Assessment).

Talk:
Build Back Better: lessons learnt and a way forward

Things changed, and then they changed again. How can we get back to where we were, or to even know where we are? How can we help our learners feel confident and engaged with their language learning in this context? In this session we will explore some ideas that can help you and your learners find your way through the maze, and look at some data from Latin American countries that can help us be (dare we say it?) optimistic.