This sounds quite well organised. Quote:

Topics will include state-of the-art CALL (computer-assisted language learning) technology, Communicative Language Teaching, vocabulary acquisition, grammar testing and oral skills assessment. In addition, there will be a session focusing on the highly anticipated new generation TOEFL that is expected to come out next year. "The workshop's dynamic approach is to present innovative and practical teaching methods and techniques, as well as assessment strategies, that Taiwan's teachers can readily adapt to their own classrooms," notes Smith. "At the same time, an active exchange of ideas between the presenters and the audience will be encouraged."

On the other hand – for as we all know "dynamic approach" could just mean doing bad things with other people's money, a lot - if the Taiwanese state sector is the sole customer and Mr Smith is an apparatchik working for the sole supplier, then may all of them be drowned by an enormous tidal wave.

The American International Education Foundation describes itself as a "non-profit foundation". Non-profit is obviously not good, but foundation at least suggests that there may be other foundations prowling around touting for the same business. I dare say plenty of people are actually profiting from all this.

Anyone know more about this? Is this a basically Chinese-American operation? Or is it bigger than that?