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English changing the global face of learning.

"What a lot of countries are doing now, at the tertiary level, is offering courses through the medium of English," Dr Milanovic said.

"It's changing the nature of where people go to get their tertiary education in English. Typically it's been UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US. You've got choice now. You could go to France (or) to Spain."

Dr Milanovic, whose Cambridge University department co-owns the International English Language Testing System and other exams, said two decades ago very few non-English speaking countries taught the language in their primary schools.

"Today you can go to any country and you'll probably find primary English being taught, not as a subject per se but as part of the core curriculum," he said.

Visiting Sydney last month, Dr Milanovic rejected any suggestion that bias by examiners had led to a loss of confidence in IELTS scores on the part of educational institutions. Global publisher Pearson is preparing for the launch of a new academic English test that uses computer scoring to eliminate inconsistent marking, especially of a candidate's speaking ability.

Dr Milanovic said that feedback from IELTS users in fact was quite positive: "People greatly appreciate that human beings are involved in the assessment, that candidates actually like to talk to real people, that the assessments themselves require candidates to use a broad range of language which is representative of the language they need in the real-lifecontext."

He doubted that Pearson's automated test, which promised logistical advantages, would push IELTS into the embrace of similar technology.

"We will use the technology when it does what we want to do rather than do what the technology allows us to do," he said.

"If anything, I see IELTS doing more in the area of getting the rich interaction between human beings, which is essentially what you're looking for. We've spent years building up this enormous cadre of examiners. We've invested millions and millions of pounds in selecting them, training them, standardising them, monitoring them and evaluating their performance."

Dr Milanovic predicted that Australia would become swept up in global acceptance of a system for mutual recognition of language levels and qualifications, the Common European Framework of Reference.

"In Australia, everyone's familiar with the IELTS scale. You will become increasingly familiar with the common European scale.

"We won't end up calling it the common European framework of reference. I think, in a few years, it will become a global phenomenon.

"Because what we need is to be able to talk globally, not just about English but about all languages, and understand what levels mean."

Source: The Australian

Release date: 03 Jun 2009