Annette Capel M.A.

Annette Capel holds an Honours Degree in European Studies, and a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics. She has also gained a Post Graduate Certificate of Education in teaching English as a Foreign Language.
She has taught EFL in Sweden, Spain and England. 
She is a freelance consultant in the area of Testing and has been closely involved with Cambridge ESOL exams at all levels since 1990. She is currently Chair of item writers for PET Paper 1, and is also an item writer for KET Paper 1, KET Paper 2, and PET Paper 2, as well as being an examiner for PET, FCE, and CAE.
Annette is the co-author of Advanced Masterclass CAE, KET Practice Tests, and PET Masterclass, published by Oxford University Press and of Objective First Certificate, Objective Proficiency and Objective KET, published by Cambridge University Press. She is also the author of Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers 1  published by Collins Publishers Limited.

Academic Presentation: The Cambridge Learner Corpus

The Cambridge Learner Corpus is an up-to-date source of learner performance data from around the world. Currently standing at more than 18 million words, this electronic collection of candidate scripts offers researchers and writers unique insights into the productive competence of different L1 language groups. The Learner Corpus not only flags up common errors, through its detailed system of error codes, but also shows the actual structural and lexical range of students. Annette's talk will focus on South American Spanish output from A2 to B2 levels, illustrating in particular what Argentinean students of English typically can and can't do. Annette will also consider some of the many advantages of using text corpora in language teaching.

 

Commercial Presentation: "I know, therefore I teach: evaluating knowledge for teaching"

The presentation will:
 

• Provide an overview of Cambridge ESOL’s model-based approach towards test development and validation.
• Report on the development phase of TKT and how Cambridge ESOL defines the TKT construct.
• Describing a series of research activities that have been carried out as part of TKT development. These include findings from the trialling phase in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, from stakeholders’ feedback questionnaires, and from standard setting activities.
• End with an overview of on-going validation activities and projected future research validation studies.