In this video, Andrew Stokes discusses how we can ensure that a placement test — or any other kind of language test — is culturally fair.
Author: Sieon Lau, Editor, ClarityEnglish
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What is a placement test?
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‘I would like to say thank you to my loving parents, Audrey Hepburn and Socrates.’
The quotation above shows how the Oxford comma can dramatically alter the meaning of a sentence — sometimes to comical effect.
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