819. What does it really mean to be “good at English”?

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

How do we know when someone's English is good? Is it just about having a "British accent", knowing lots of big words, or speaking with no errors? In fact, there is a lot more to it than that. IELTS can show us how someone's level of English is assessed by looking at a wide range of skills and sub-skills and there is a lot more to it than making no errors while speaking with a "British accent". This episode should help you consider your own level of English level, get some perspective on what language competence really means, and hopefully cause people to think twice when making snap judgements about other people's English.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:07.2	visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk.
0:10.0	UK. Okay. I hope so. Here's a brand new episode for you and there is a PDF transcript for this one.
0:26.8	It's a transcript of pretty much everything I'm going to say in the listening to it. If you look in the notes, the text notes, you'll find a link to get the
0:44.6	transcript that I'm reading from. You can also find that link on the page for this
0:50.0	episode on my website. You can just download it free. I'm not even going to ask for your
0:54.6	email address or anything you can just get it free. Just in case you would like to be able to
0:59.2	read all of this stuff as well as listen to me say it. you want to go back and and check words or
1:05.2	repeat after me or do whatever it is you want to do with that you can the
1:11.1	link is in the description okay Okay, right, so let's get started. I'm now
1:15.2	going to start reading from that PDF transcript and I'm going to start reading from
1:19.1	it right now. So here we go. Hello everyone in this episode I'm going to be answering this question.
1:25.9	Are you ready?
1:27.1	Good.
1:28.1	So the question is, what does it really mean to have good English? How do we assess someone's English level? How can IELTS help us
1:36.7	to understand what good English is? And why is all of this important anyway? Admittedly that was four questions rather than just one but
1:46.1	the main one is what does it really mean to have good English. So here's an episode
1:50.9	which I hope will be really useful as a way of helping you to understand what it really means to be good at English.
1:59.0	We're going to consider some things about how English is assessed, so that means how your English level is
2:06.1	judged, the different skills which are involved in using English and what
2:11.5	aspects of English are the most important. I hope this episode gives you a bit
2:16.1	more perspective on what it means to have a good level of English. Also there will be a lot of
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