Yokohama JALT:

Teaching Micro-Skills for the TOEFL iBT Speaking Tasks and Independent Writing Task

Date: Sunday, April 8th, 2007 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker: Terry Yearley

Description:
Many Japanese students take the TOEFL test each year with the aim of studying either at universities abroad or at universities offering English programs (such as Sophia and Waseda). The objective of this workshop is to share ideas on how best to prepare students for the TOEFL iBT. Terry Yearley will introduce some of the micro-skills (such as skim reading, scanning, and note-taking) that will help students not only with the TOEFL test, but also with future academic study. He believes that the primary goal of TOEFL iBT test preparation is for students to learn the necessary skills for academic study in the medium of English, and that the iBT itself is a secondary goal. He is therefore concerned with how to best help students achieve both these goals. Thus the workshop will not only be helpful for teachers of the TOEFL test, but also offer hands-on ideas to take back to high school and university classrooms.

Terry Yearley has been teaching EFL in Tokyo for 5 years. He has been teaching TOEFL preparation skills at schools in Tokyo for 3 years.

Organization: Yokohama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Yokohama JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen

Venue: Ginou Bunka Kaikan (Skills and Culture Center) near JR Kannai and Yokohama Subway Isezakichojamachi [See yojalt.bravehost.com for details, map]

Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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