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Issue 34.05; September/October 2010

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A Taste of JALT2009 Conference Proceedings Special Issue

Conference Proceedings Articles

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• Ten native checkers and one English abstract
  - by Ian Willey and Kimie Tanimoto
• Japanese-English bilingual children's perspective
  - by Masae Takeuchi
• Who wants feedback and does it make any difference?
  - by Rachael Ruegg
• Task sequencing based on the Cognition Hypothesis
  - by Rick Romanko and Miyuki Nakatsugawa
• The measurement problem in Extensive Reading: Students' attitudes
  - by Ian Mark Brierley, David Ruzicka, Hiroki Sato, and Tomonori Wakasugi
• Exploring teacher talk: Just listen to yourself
  - by Jason Peppard
• Use of mnemonics by Japanese students
  - by María Fernández Alonso
• A Qualitative Study on Demotivating Factors
  - by Shuji Tsumura
• Loop it! Student Participatory Research
  - by Joseph Falout and Tim Murphey
• Content-based instruction for OLE: The French forum
  - by Ernesto Hernandez

Feature Article

• Expanding the dialogue: Incorporating classroom observations in curriculum development
  - by James Nenema

Reader's Forum

• The right stuff: hiring trends for tenured university positions in Japan
  - by James McCrostie
• We're going to Englishland! Class trips abroad at home
  - by Christopher Stillwell

Resources • My Share

• Using the Daily Yomiuri for an editorial group work class
  - by Tim Knight
• Introducing autonomy to your students: A simple discussion activity
  - by Peter Mizuki
• Communicative competence: Task-oriented activities that engage students in creative language use
  - by Craig Gamble
• Scaffolding difficult topics for meaningful discussion
  - by Robin Russ

Resources • Book Reviews

• Topic Talk (2nd Edition)
  - reviewed by Robert H. Taferner
• Oxford Word Skills (Levels 1-3)
  - reviewed by Arthur Lauritsen

Resources • TLT Wired

• What's new for instructors in Moodle 2.0?
  - by Ted O'Neill

JALT Focus • Member's Profile

• Chris Wharton
  - with Jason Peppard

JALT Focus • Grassroots

• The unseen face of JALT - Part 2
  - by Cynthia Keith
• Meeting the needs of EFL teacher/researchers with MASH Academic Publishing
  - by Theron Muller
• Men imagining a girl revolution: Lecture review
  - by Erina Ogawa
• Lend us your ears: Help with finding online listening resources
  - by Thomas Boutorwick

JALT Focus • Outreach

• An interview with volunteer teacher Elliot Waldman in Vietnam
  - by David McMurray

Column • Job Information Center

• The Berlitz Method of Labour Intimidation
  - by James McCrostie

Humour • Old Grammarians

• If Nostradamus were an English teacher
  - by Scott Gardner

In this month's issue . . .

Special issue: A Taste of JALT2009

With the 36th annual JALT National 2010 Conference quickly approaching, TLT is taking the time to reflect on last year's conference. The theme in 2009 was "The Teaching-Learning Dialogue: An Active Mirror." In this issue, we feature some of the best papers submitted for publication in the conference proceedings. Many thanks go out to our dedicated team of proceedings editors and readers who contributed to making this issue by offering their recommendations on what to include. We have endeavored to bring you a wide range of proceedings summaries which not only prompt us to reflect on last year's conference but also encourage us to look forward to this year's. The topic of each summary includes an element of creativity and takes us "outside the box" on a variety of issues.

Ian Willey, Kimie Tanimoto, Masae Takeuchi, Rachael Ruegg, Rick Romanko, Miyuki Nakatsugawa, Mark Brierley, David Ruzicka, Hiroki Sato,Tomonori Wakasugi, Jason Peppard, Maria Fernandez Alonso, Shuji Tsumura, Joseph Falout, Tim Murphey and Ernesto Hernandez have kindly prepared short summaries of their conference presentations based on their proceedings papers. The full articles, along with many others, are available at jalt-publications.org/proceedings/2009

In other regular columns, James Venema's feature article looks at incorporating classroom observations into curriculum development. Pieces by Christopher Stillwell and James McCrostie appear in the Readers' Forum and Book Reviews include Topic Talk (2nd Edition) and Oxford Word Skills (Levels 1-3). My Share is full of good ideas for lessons this issue: Tim Knight talks about using newspapers in class, Peter Mizuki looks at learner autonomy, Craig Gamble suggests tasks for stimulating creative language use, and Robin Russ gives tips on scaffolding.

I would like to thank our large team of JALT volunteers who have worked so hard to bring us the 2009 conference proceedings. I would also like to thank the authors who prepared succinct summaries of their work to share with us. We hope that you enjoy this special issue and we extend to you a warm invitation to join us at this year's conference. Please stop by the JALT Publications table to meet the editors and staff or attend our presentation on publishing your work. We look forward to seeing you in Nagoya!

特集号　A Taste of JALT2009

第36回2010年JALT年次大会がまもなく開催される運びとなり、昨年度の年次大会を振り返るこの時期が参りました。2009年のテーマは、“The Teaching-Learning Dialogue: An Active Mirror”でした。今月号では、昨年度のProceedings より選りすぐられた何本かの論文にスポットを当てます。今月号に論文をご推薦下さいました、Proceedings の献身的な編集者と査読者のみなさんに深い感謝の意を表します。Proceedings の多種多様な概要は、昨年度の年次大会を思い起こさせると同時に、今年の大会を期待させるものともなるでしょう。それぞれの概要が創造性の要素を含んでおり、私達をさまざまな点で“outside the box”「箱の外」へと導きます。

Ian Willey, Kimie Tanimoto, Masae Takeuchi, Rachael Reugg, Rick Romanko, Miyuki Nakatsugawa, Mark Brierley, David Ruzicka, Hiroki Sato,Tomonori Wakasugi, Jason Peppard, Maria Fernandez Alonso, Shuji Tsumura, Joseph Falout, Tim Murphey, Ernesto Hernandez は、Proceedings に基づき、口頭発表の簡潔な概要を用意致しました。全文に関しましては、jalt-publications.org/proceedings/2009 をご参照下さい。

その他のいつものコラムでは、Feature でJames Venema がカリキュラム開発に授業観察を組み入れ、Readers' Forum では、Christopher Stillwell と James McCrostieの論文が掲載されています。Book Reviews では、Topic Talk (2nd Edition) と Oxford Word Skills (Levels 1-3) が取り上げられています。My Share は今月号も授業に関するたくさんのアイディアでいっぱいです。 Tim Knight は授業に新聞を用いる方法を紹介し、Peter Mizuki は学習者自律について概観し、Craig Gambleは創造的な言語使用を促すタスクを示し、Robin Russはscaffoldingのヒントを探求します。 2009年度Proceedingsの作成に携わった、大勢のJALTボランティアメンバーの懸命なご尽力に感謝申し上げます。また、簡潔な概要を準備していただいた著者の皆様にも感謝の意を表明したいと思います。読者の皆様に楽しんでいただき、今月号が今年度の年次大会への招待状となればと思っています。編集者や編集スタッフに会いにJALTのPublications テーブルにお立ち寄りください。また、皆様の研究成果の出版に関する私たちのプレゼンテーションにもぜひご参加ください。名古屋でお会いできることを楽しみにしています。

Jennifer Yphantides,
TLT Associate Editor