Traditional and Online Assessment Tools for Learning English

Abstract

As part of the English language teaching and learning process, assessing the students’ knowledge and abilities has become challenging in this pandemic year and environment. Switching from one form to another, from “the paper-and-pencil language test” to an online devise poses questions and requires information technology-related skills. This paper aims at furnishing a whole range of sources showing how educators are considering the use of several assessment forms and how webinars and other online sources can help teachers all over the world make changes bearable, useful and enjoyable. This is a period of time when teachers need to be creative and think not only of better teaching and assessment methods, but also of starting or enhancing communication and interrelationship channels, improving the learning atmosphere in the virtual/online/remote “classroom”.

Keywords

• esp
• business english
• online teaching
• assessment tools
• webinars