Language & Study

What a week it’s been for ABA English! Last week the online English academy with more than 8 million students signed a deal with Cambridge University to become an official examiner of the Business Language ...

It’s not that uncommon for a student’s TOEFL score to get “stuck.” By this, I mean that a student’s TOEFL performance can reach a certain score range, and then not really go above that score ...

Hey ABA family! Are you always trying to figure out what the best way to study is but never really sure what the answer is? Don’t panic! Today we are going to look at some ...

Hey ABA family! Today we are going to concentrate on an important pronunciation topic: where we put the stress on words where the noun and verb have the same spelling. Podcast: Play in new window ...

The TOEFL is a very North American exam. The test is sponsored by ETS, a California-based test prep organization. And the exam is pretty much universally accepted by schools in the USA and Canada. Moreover, ...

Hello everyone! Recently, I was reviewing a student’s recorded response to a TOEFL Independent Speaking task. The question prompt asked for a spoken opinion about cell phones. While talking about mobile technology, the student mispronounced ...

The Australian idiom "better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick" means that something is better than nothing.

Hello ABA Family! Here are 14 expressions for those of you in love with someone, with life or even with English! If you haven’t read the first part, you can find it here! 1.To have ...

Howdy! Several years ago, I was talking with a young ESL student of mine in South Korea. She excitedly told me that she had just had a dream that was all in English. I remember feeling ...

Hello ABA Friends! Put your dancing shoes on, it’s another “Learn English with Songs” lesson and our teacher today is Justin Bieber! His album Purpose sold 522,000 copies in its first week of release in ...