How language testing is embracing technology

By Claudia Civinini. On a hot summer’s day in Australia, about nine years ago, I was standing in a long queue to register at an IELTS test centre. We were all nervous, overdressed, and around AUS$300 lighter. If someone had told me then that I could have taken the test in my pyjamas from the comfort of my bedroom, and still gained admission to a university, I would have thought them delirious and called an ambulance, fearing heatstroke. More...