ELT Calendar

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Oxford Teaching Workshop Series 2012 (Tsukuba)
Time: 10:30 AM - 2:20 PM
Speaker: Marco Brazil, Aurora Dobashi, Devon Thagard
Organization: Oxford University Press
Location: Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Short description: Practical and interactive workshops from well-known presenters to help you teach children more effectively. Pre-registration strongly recommended.

Program-Tailored Student Placement
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: David Laurence (Chubu University) and Matt Smith (Sugiyama Jogakuen University)
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: The presenters will share the process of creating a student placement test at a university-level English program from design to implementation, showing how a single test based on receptive skills was replaced with two parallel tests based on productive skills: one speaking test based on the SPEAK test, and one writing test based on a learner corpus.