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The Language Training and
Testing Center (LTTC) was established in 1951 and has been registered
with Taiwan's Ministry of Education (MOE) as a non-profit educational
foundation since 1986. Located on the campus of National Taiwan
University (NTU), the LTTC is under the supervision of a board of
directors with the president of NTU as chairperson.
The mission of the LTTC is to meet the needs of Taiwanˇ¦s social and
economic development through research, development, and administration
in language training and testing. The LTTC maintains a strong reputation
in its areas of specialization. In addition to its principal objectives,
the LTTC is also dedicated to supporting language learners and teachers
by publishing textbooks and test preparation materials, carrying out a
wide range of language teaching and testing related research, sponsoring
workshops and seminars on linguistics and language pedagogy, and
cooperating with local and international scholars and institutions.
In order to engender fruitful dialogue between the fields of language
teaching and testing, in 2009, the LTTC hosted an international
conference with the theme ˇ§A New Look at Language Teaching and Testing:
English as Subject and Vehicle.ˇ¨ The conference was a great success,
enjoyed by over 350 participants. A selection of papers from the
conference are included in the Selected Papers from the 2009 LTTC
International Conference on English Language Teaching and Testing.
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Training and testing programs:
The training program offers language courses in English, French, German,
Japanese, and Spanish to staff members of government organizations,
schools, and private institutions, and to the general public. This program comprises ten-week courses, short-term courses to
explore specific topics such as translation and news English, and
special courses that meet specific needs of public and private
organizations. Teachers employ a communicative approach in the classroom
with an emphasis on language use and cross-cultural understanding.
The testing program provides various language proficiency tests, some
developed by the LTTC itself and others conducted on behalf of its
overseas partners, to language learners of a wide range of levels and
interests. The LTTC developed and administers the Foreign Language
Proficiency Test (FLPT), the College Student English Proficiency Test (CSEPT),
and the General English Proficiency Test (GEPT). The LTTC also conducts
tests in Taiwan on behalf of overseas institutions, including the
Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Prometric in the U.S., Cambridge
ESOL in the U.K., the Interchange Association in Japan and the Japan
Student Services Organization, as well as the TestDaF Institute in
Germany.
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