ELT Calendar

Saturday, April 13th, 2013

High Stakes Interaction in a Company Audit
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Alan Simpson (Asahi Kasei, Miyazaki)
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Short description: Alan Simpson will discuss his research on the complex language required in multinational audits. After highlighting the types of communicative problems and opportunities in this high-stake environment, he will address some of the communicative strategies typically used and introduce ways to develop participants' interaction skills to help them cope with situations where there is a breakdown in communication or when they are asked questions which are difficult to answer.

Testing Interactional Speaking - A workshop
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Alun Roger
Organization: Kitakyushu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: First, I shall summarise the theory and administration behind a group small-talk type test that targets an often under-represented facet of speaking assessments interactional language.