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Warwick, L. (2016). The Use of Assessment Criteria in Classroom Speaking Tasks . Research  Notes , (66), 16-21: Cambridge English. The article recounts a research project carried out at a language school focusing on the use of formative assessment tools and its influence on student’s progress in speaking skills. It describes and analyses the role of assessment criteria given by the teacher before and after the evaluative process made by students themselves, also providing relevant sample results of a two phases research. Results suggest a significant, positive effect on learning before the speaking task was done. Although the research project has its limitations, the author acknowledges the benefits it has when pupils recorded themselves and evaluated the speaking performance.  

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Learning to live after Love, Loss and Death                                      There’s a before and an after Steve Job’s well- known speech at Stanford University, like Kamala´s speech, like Mandela´s words. Talented minds have the wisdom and greatness to make things work and silence shout. With a sensitive trait, he became the protagonist of three remarkable events in his life, permeated by love, loss and death . When addressing to Stanford 2005 graduates, Jobs encouraged them to ‘connect the dots’ of circumstances which occur in the stream of life and that would, eventually, connect in their future.        Jobs narrated three moving stories that had printed deep learning in him. The first one was dropping out ; he referred to some family issues and also dropping out from college, an experience he described as positive since he learnt a lot fr...