Third-year junior high school students correctly answered only 12.4 percent of questions, on average, on the government’s nationwide English-speaking test, while 60 percent of students scored a flat ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education announced it has selected the British Council as a candidate to administer the next English speaking test for public junior high school students in the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency. Subscribe to read this ...

During the test you will be asked to speak on a variety of topics ranging from the general and personal to the more abstract and you will be expected to use both formal and informal language. In this ...

When describing a photo, the first thing to do is say what you can see. Try to think about some things that you could mention, eg who is in the photo, what they are doing, where they are and what ...

Junior high school students in Tokyo sit a mock English-conversation test in September 2018. (Photo courtesy of the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education) TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of ...