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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
Taiwan¡¦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, the LTTC regularly
hosts international conferences on themes related to language
learning, teaching, and testing.
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 Second Foreign Language Proficiency
Test-Basic (SFLPT-Basic), 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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"Since
its establishment sixty years ago, the LTTC has
devoted itself to serving EFL education in
Taiwan by providing the public with high-quality
language courses and tests and facilitating
exchanges with educational institutions and testing
boards around the world."
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Professor Si-Chen Lee, Chairperson of the LTTC Board
of Directors and President of National Taiwan
University
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"The GEPT is constantly changing to meet the
evolving needs of test-users. It sets
the standard for language testing in Taiwan, and has
increasingly been recognized by universities in
different parts of the world. The LTTC will remain
committed to research and development in language
testing, and will continue to provide the public
with the most up-to-date resources for language
assessment."
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Professor
Hsien-hao Liao, Executive Director, the Language
Training & Testing Center
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