Volume 6
Comparison of Three Methods of Assessing Difficulty
Text difficulty has been a concern of educational researchers and practitioners for more than 70 years (Chall and Conrad, 1991) and many have used different methods to assess the difficulty of the text (Chall and Dale, 1995). In fact, one of the most important aspects of textbook development has been considered to be texts of appropriate difficulty by educational publishers.
Two Examples of CALL Use In The Classroom
This paper is intended to serve as a guideline for teachers in the use of CALL in the English Language classroom and was written in Dublin, when the author was teaching TOEFL exam classes to a group of predominantly Asian students and decided that the material needed to be more motivational and more closely related to students’ own interests.
