Note-taking drilled separately
Note-taking is pulled out into its own exercise, because in the integrated tasks the notes are exactly what the candidate has to speak and write from.
TOEFL iBT · E-learning feedback
Bùi Tuấn Kiệt
Main strength
Teaches note-taking as a skill in its own right — the thing both integrated iBT tasks rest on.
- TOEFL score
- 114
- Experience
- 5 years
Leads TOEFL iBT and the marking work on the online platform, focusing on the integrated tasks — where candidates read, listen, then write or speak the two sources back.
Introduction
About Bùi Tuấn Kiệt
Five years of teaching, leading TOEFL iBT. The hardest part of this paper is not vocabulary but the two integrated tasks: read a passage, hear a lecture that contradicts it, then write or speak the relationship between the two. Note-taking is the deciding skill, and it is drilled on its own rather than left to students to work out.
The rest of the work is marking on the online platform: the Writing and the recorded speaking students submit between sessions all pass through a teacher before being returned with feedback, and every teacher's comments follow one set of criteria — so two pieces at the same level do not come back with two different judgements just because different people marked them.
In the classroom
How these lessons run
Feedback written out
Every piece comes back with specific comments against each criterion, not a score and a few general lines.
Marked between sessions
Work submitted to the platform is returned before the next session, so the feedback is still in time to be used on the next piece.
Currently teaching
Courses and skills
Programmes taught
- TOEFL
- IELTS
TOEFL
All four sections of the iBT, weighted towards the two integrated tasks and note-taking while listening.
E-learning
The online course: setting work, marking it, and tracking progress on the Wobridge platform.
Written feedback
Marking writing against each criterion, identifying errors that repeat across pieces rather than judging each piece alone.
Next step
Find the class that matches your current level
Wobridge uses a placement test to work out your current band, then recommends the stage and the teacher that fit your goal.