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While targeting "English language students and researchers" (p. 45), an abridged version of the grammar was released in 2002, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, together with a workbook entitled Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook, to be used by students on university and teacher-training courses.
The volume was later entitled "A Corpus of Formal British English Speech: The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus", and was first published by Longman in 1996, later by Routledge in 2013. The book is currently available from online bookstores including Routledge and Book Depository, or in electronic format from Google Play Books. [7] [8]
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British Lingua was established in 1993 by Birbal Jha, [1] who in 2014 was its managing director. [2]According to its website, the purpose of British Lingua is to "provide unfettered access to the study of English for all sections of society" in India. [3]
The exam continued to evolve, reflecting thinking and developments in communicative language assessment and second language acquisition (SLA). By 1975 it included separate listening and speaking tests, finally adopting a format familiar to modern-day candidates with papers in Reading, Use of English, Writing, Listening and Speaking/Interview.
A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions. In speech technology , speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or speaker identification engine). [ 1 ]
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The EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) attempts to rank countries by the equity of English language skills amongst those adults who took the EF test. [2] It is the product of EF Education First , an international education company, and draws its conclusions from data collected via English tests available for free over the internet.