Beyond B2

Abstract: All schools now offer English to some degree, and every day more and more learners reach a B2 level. This raises the bar and poses a challenge: now that so many reach the kind of English competence that used to be a distinction, going beyond B2 has gone from a rare icing on the cake to the new standard. What impact does that have in what we teach and how we do it? Can the same approaches that bring someone from “no English” to “I can manage in English” carry them to “my English is advanced”? It almost goes without saying that everything changes after B2.

From progression and content to teaching approaches and motivation management, advanced English is a world of its own. Join us to explore the challenges of developing high English competence, ways to work through them and how getting this challenge right will make the difference for every member of your school’s community.

Biodata: Pablo Toledo is an English teacher and teacher trainer (ISP “Joaquín V. González”). He holds Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Assessment from the University of Cambridge and a diploma in education policy from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Before joining Cambridge Assessment English, he managed projects in the areas of remote teaching, internationalisation of higher education and language teaching to refugees for the British Council and led the Education department of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper. He is the vice-president of LAALTA (Latin American Association of Language Testing and Assessment.