SAWA Yasuto
Research report of Ube Technical College Ube National College of Technology 53 65 - 71 0386-4359 2007/03
Concluded in 2003, so far our academic partnership with the University of Newcastle in Australia has allowed four students to take short-term language training at the Language Center there, with three of them completing the five-week training course in August, 2006. With the further development of this academic partnership and a growing number of students eager to get a chance to learn English at the center, it is crucial to make an overall review of the language training system itself, with special emphasis on its curriculum, classes, and tests, which are covered in detail in this paper. Based on the reports of two students who studied English at the center last year, this paper also aims to find out problems of the current system and to offer suggestions for the possible enhancement of our academic partnership as well as of the training system in the future.