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The Language Teacher

The Language Teacher

tlt coverThis site contains material from The Language Teacher, the monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai). The Language Teacher, or TLT as we usually refer to it, was first published under that name in April, 1984 (though its roots go back further. For a more detailed history, this article will be of interest). Since then it has continued without a break, and is proud of its place as the only monthly refereed language education journal in the world. This is even more remarkable given the fact that the staff (almost 40 people, plus advisory board members) are ALL volunteers!

Almost all of the articles published in TLT since 1996 are available on this website for members and subscribers to use. We hope you enjoy this rich resource of research material.

The editors and staff

IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Dear colleagues and friends

We're glad you can join us as we take our first steps in the next phase of our journey with The Language Teacher. For us, it's an exciting time, with new opportunities for innovation and development.

As you've probably already realized, beginning with this issue The Language Teacher has become a bi-monthly publication and will appear in January, March, May, July, September, and November. This follows a unanimous endorsement by JALT's Executive Board at JALT2009 in November.

This change doesn't mean you'll be missing anything, however. Each issue will now have two months' worth of items of interest for and from you, our readers: short papers, discussion items, and opinions pieces. We hope this will also allow greater space for innovation and increased opportunity for you to be engaged with both JALT and the profession as a whole.

Over the coming months, you'll also see that items of news and information which appear in the end section of TLT will be more compact, with URL links to more detailed information online. In addition, news and announcements will be brought to you online in a much more timely fashion.

Of course, reforms like this can't happen overnight, so we'd ask you to bear with us as these changes come into effect over the next six months. The transformation should be complete and the new look TLT fully in place with the July/August issue.

In the meantime, please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any comments, or suggestions to further improve The Language Teacher. It's your publication: help us to make it what you want and need.

All the best,
Steve Brown
JALT Publications Board Chair

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