Event

Wine, Cheese, and The New TOEIC (followed by Osaka Chapter elections and business meeting)

Sunday, October 29th, 2006, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Lin Lougheed of Pearson Longman, and Grant Trew of Oxford University Press

Osaka JALT, in conjunction with Nara and Kyoto chapters, welcome the experts from Pearson Longman and Oxford University Press to tell us about the new TOEICR test.

1:30 Doors Open

2:00-3:00 Lin Lougheed: Preparing for the new TOEICR
The new items types and expanded length of TOEICR conversations, talks, and reading passages require revised teaching procedures and careful classroom management in order to prepare students for the new TOEICR . The presentation will provide strategies for students taking the new TOEICR and for teachers preparing these students.

3:00- 3:15 Break. Book display for Oxford University Press & Pearson Longman

3:15-4:15 Grant Trew: New TOEICR : New Challenges, New Skills
The recent changes to the Listening and Reading test, and the forthcoming introduction of the TOEICR Speaking and Writing tests at the end of this year, introduce an entirely new set of challenges for test takers. The presentation will highlight the more important changes to the current test, outline the types of tasks that will be faced on the new Speaking and Writing tests, and look at some ways of developing the new skills necessary to score well.

4:15-5:00 Wine and Cheese reception, Book Displays from Pearson Longman & Oxford University Press.

Osaka Chapter business meeting and annual officers' election will immediately follow at a nearby restaurant.

Lin Lougheed, of Pearson Longman, started his EFL career in 1968 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey and has been teaching, teacher training, writing, and presenting at conferences ever since. He earned his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University and has received two Fulbright awards: a scholar grant in Sri Lanka and a professor grant in Tunisia. In 1983, he founded Instructional Design International, Inc. to develop English teaching materials in all media. Lin Lougheed is a past member of the TESOL Executive Board and has also served the organization as Chair of two special interest groups: Teaching English Internationally and Materials Writers. He is an acknowledged leader in TOEIC and TOEFL preparation and has written over 35 EFL/ESP texts.

Grant Trew, of Oxford University Press, has been working in the field of EFL for nearly 20 years in the UK, the Middle East and Japan. For more than 15 of those years he has had a special involvement with the TOEIC test, including teaching, materials writing, course design and planning/running large scale teacher training courses. He is an ETS trained item writer for both the current TOEIC (Listening and Reading) test, and the soon to be released Speaking and Writing components.

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

Cost: free

Venue: The Dawn Center, near Keihan/subway Tenmabashi (06-6910-8615), Seminar Room 2 5Fl. (See map)

Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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Bob Sanderson