This website exists to help students prepare for the IELTS speaking part 2 exam. It focusses on helping students write high-quality notes during the 1 minute preparation time before their 2 minute oral presentation, and then offers them opportunities to practice this. To better help students, the website also contains background facts and a breakdown of the IELTs speaking exam procedure, timings, question topics, and exam criteria. A few suggested exam strategies are also suggested, in additon to suggested ways of practicing the actual oral presentation.
Website Rationale
The thinking behind this website is the desire to offer a one-size-fits-all informative website for students/exam candidates to write high-quality notes in their IELTS speaking part 2 exam. The website could also serve as confirmation to its visitors that may already be writing high-quality notes. Whether visitors to the site improve thanks to it, or confirm they are already performing at their best, they should leave with a solid understanding of what high-quality notes are after using the Notes Laboratory tool at the core of the website homepage.
In an age of digital learning, this website offers a practical tool that needs no extras in order to improve speaking exam perfromances. It does this by condensing key IELTS industry literature into its most significant and helpful elements, then making them available online across all modern devices.
A secondary aim is to provide site visitors with solid overall background knowledge of the speaking part 2 exam through it's Key Exam Information page, to help contextualize the Notes Laboratory tool. This background knowledge consists of: What the exam procedure and timings are, Which question topics could appear in the exam, Suggested strategies to produce high-quality notes, and How the speaking exam is assessed.
A logical added element is the suggestion to students/exam candidates to actually use the notes they produce using the website to practice oral presentations and then receive feedback from their teacher or an IELTS expert.
Last but not least, IELTS teachers, general English teachers, and any other teacher within the ELT and communications sphere could utilize this site both for its specifically explained purposes (above) or any othe purposes that suit their learning/teaching environments. The structure and wording of this site though, is entirely student oriented.
Website Origins
This website is based on research conducted in 2023 by J. Mariano Ortiz during his Master's Degree in Professional Development for Language Education (MAPDLE) at NILE/Chichester University in the UK (more information on this degree is available here). The research focussed on using Chat GPT Artifical Intelligence to prepare students for the IELTS speaking part 2 exam. The student-oriented research reflected the contemporary needs of average IELTS students and the list of high-quality notes characteristics in the research is at the core of this website's Notes Laboratory tool.
You can read J. Mariano's research below. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or requests, feel free to email info@ieltshelp.com