TOEFL ESL PRONUNCIATION TESTING – for Toronto (Canada) students only.

Esl-linkscanada.com offers a follow-up service to the on-line ESL Pronunciation Exercises by testing students in a recording studio in Toronto, to monitor their progress. Students spend one half hour speaking, Speaking does not only mean pronunciation, but also proper syntax and smooth delivery. Confidence in speaking will be evident in each recording and will be useful for suggesting ways to remove awkwardness, anxiety and hesitation.

Testing can take place as often as the student desires, or when the student feels he/she has reached a significant benchmark of improvement, or anytime the student wants to intensify his/her efforts to improve Pronunciation and therefore is open to positive criticism and suggestions by ESL experts, or in preparation for a job/school interview.

ESL-testing is a personal way to take responsibility to improve one’s individual English speaking proficiency, since no one else can improve pronunciation but the student himself/herself. Testing techniques and personal feedback have proven very helpful in any language learning over the years. Testing is proof that the students really wants to improve.

We recommend PRONOUNCIATION TESTING highly for the following reasons:

• It keeps a student on the task of practicing daily
• It improves a student’s spoken word faster and better
• It minimizes repeating mistakes since these are heard and corrected at once
• It makes the student sound better on the telephone or during interviews
• It guides teachers to help students and prescribe quick remedies
• It saves the teacher time and helps her focus on the problem
• It helps to obtain better employment, increase confidence and socialize without anxiety
• It helps you get to know yourself better
• It helps you to help yourself
• You may send your pronunciation CD along with your resume

You don’t know how ‘GOOD’ you sound until you get your own CD!

Tina Whalen, E.S.L., O.T.C., B.A., M.A.