ELT Calendar

Friday, April 26th, 2002

Testing for Reliability: Test Item Analysis on a TOEIC Listening test
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Paul Hackshaw
Organization: Kyoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Short description: This presentation describes Paul Hackshaw's small-scale Item Test Response analysis conducted on the TOEIC test. The study examines how university students performed on a section of the TOEIC listening test.

Teacher training & development for teachers of English in junior and senior high schools
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: British Council
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: Today's theme: Using textbooks communicatively The British Council Tokyo teacher development seminars are intended for teachers of English in the junior and senior high schools.

Low-tech classroom response system
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Captur Paddles encourage every student to stay involved.

Mobile Audience Response System (MOARS)

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.