Yasushige ISHIKAWA    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Professor
Date	2012/08/22
Presentation Theme	Selected can-do statements and learning materials for ATR CALL BRIX: helping university students in Japan improve their TOEIC scores
Conference	EUROCALL 2012
Promoters	European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Venue	Gothenburg, Sweden
Publisher and common publisher	Yasushige Ishikawa, Mutsumi Kondo, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Craig Smith, Hiroshi Hatakeda, Norihisa Wada
Details	This paper reports on the use of can-do statements (CDS) for the development of learning materials to prepare Japanese university students for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). These learning materials have been made available on ATR CALL BRIX (http://www.atr-lt.jp/products/brix/index.html), a www-based courseware with a learning management system (LMS) which contains study logs, achievement rate reports on student-set goals, the identification of students’ weak points, and advice on test-taking strategies.