ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Tourism in America
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Speaker: Nathaniel Hoy
Organization: Yamagata Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Short description: Nathaniel Hoy will discuss the use of English as a means of global communication when touring in America. Hoy is an English conveersation school instructor in Nagai city, Yamagata.

Preliminary Report on Linguistic Readiness of Japanese Students Studying at an American University
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: L. Dennis Woolbright, Kazuko Nishioka, and Yuji Hayashi
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: About 150,000 Japanese students take the TOEFL test every year, which is about 20 per cent of the total test-takers in the world. Educational Testing Service (ETS) has announced that a new-generation on-line Test of English as Foreign Language iBT(TOEFL) will come into operation in 2006 in Japan.