ECC Defrauding Applicants?

[GodEmperorLeto]

Don't help him. If he works in EFL and doesn't know those terms, it's a lost cause. He seems to have a terribly negative attitude anyway. That alone, not a test score, would cause him to fail the interview.

I hope you aren't talking about me. I know plenty of ESL concepts, and have read summaries of Krashen's theories, thank you very much. I looked up TPR today. It is one of a small number of techniques my institute doesn't use, partially because it is mostly for children. If you are talking about ArmandV, well, personally, I think you should go a little lighter on him.

Nevertheless, I think that ECC probably assumed that applicants knew about the tests. I know about these tests, and about what is on them. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of specific ESL terms and jargon, and dozens of linguistic theorists who coined them. If ECC puts some very basic ones on the test, that's cool. But I've read some of the manuals and textbooks for my univerity's MA program in TESL, and to be a neophyte tested on this stuff must be daunting. If they want someone with a firm ESL background, it might help to restrict applicants to TESL-certified only.