The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course

Abstract

M. Spratt, A. Pulverness, and M. Williams Cambridge University Press 2005 188 pp., £8.50 ISBN 0 521 60992 5 Already widely known for its courses for teachers and its range of exams testing proficiency in using English as a second language, the UK examinations board Cambridge ESOL have now designed and introduced The Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT), a test for teachers of English to speakers of other languages that may be taken by language teachers at any stage of their career. It forms part of a framework that includes the CELTA and DELTA. Like these two exams, the TKT covers subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical content, but it does not attempt to assess knowledge of teaching ability, which is best assessed by classroom practice. The TKT Course, therefore, does not teach and test practical skills language teachers need to apply in the classroom, nor is its aim to assess their English language proficiency. Instead, it is an easily administered test of teachers' knowledge of concepts relating to a wide variety of aspects of the language teaching classroom which are assessed by various short objective tasks, all of which teachers will be familiar with.

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