The Language Teacher Online
Issue 33.06; June 2009

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FEATURE ARTICLE

• L1 use in instructions for low-level learners
  - by Leigh McDowell

READERS' FORUM

• The case for combining narrow reading and listening
  - by Harumi Kimura & Vick Ssali

READERS' FORUM • INTERVIEW

• Putting the SL in ESL: Exploring immersive English education through Second Life
  - by Iain Campbell

RESOURCES • MY SHARE

• Basic research skills for EFL students
  - by Charlie Canning

• Direct student feedback
  - by Luke Fryer

RESOURCES • BOOK REVIEWS

• Active SKills for Communication Book 1
  - reviewed by Mayumi Asaba

JALT FOCUS • TLT WIRED

• Simple ways to build educational web sites with WordPress
  - by Richard Hawking

JALT FOCUS • SHOWCASE

• Ryan Hagglund
  - with Damian Rivers

JALT FOCUS • GRASSROOTS

• Old and new officers in JALT: Keeping the circle
  - by Fred Carruth

• Conference report: TESOL in Denver, Colorado
  - by Kip Cates

JALT FOCUS • JOB INFORMATION CENTER

• CV's, lies, and videotape: Making a sample teaching video
  - with James McCrostie

In this month's issue . . .

Greetings and welcome to the June issue of The Language Teacher

June is the time of year when the school year starts to stretch into infinity; a month away from Golden Week and another month to go before exams and summer break. If you feel you need to find some ideas to refresh your teaching, then you've come to the right place. In our Feature, Leigh McDowell researches the influence of L1 instructions on student performance. In Readers' Forum, Harumi Kimura and Vick Ssali discuss the benefits of combining narrow listening and reading in class, followed by Iain Campbell's interview of Giovanni Tweak, owner and founder of Drive-Through ESL, an English school based in the virtual world of Second Life.

These informative articles are topped off with My Share contributions from Charlie Canning, who encourages development of basic research skills with EFL students, and Luke Fryer, who discusses one way he solicits feedback from his students. In Book Reviews, Mayumi Asaba reviews Active Skills for Communication Book 1. These columns are of course followed by all of the other regular columns that comprise TLT.

Next month will be our JALT2009 Pre-Conference TLT, filled to the brim with information about what will be happening in Shizuoka in November this year.

Theron Muller
Coeditor

TLT 6月号へようこそ

ゴールデンウィークが過ぎ、テストや夏休みまではまだひと月ある6月は、何かと間延びのする時期でもあります。もし授業をリフレッシュさせるアイディアをお探しであれば、TLT こそまさにふさわしい場所です。Feature ではLeigh McDowell が、教師のL1使用が学生の課題達成度に与える影響について調査しています。Readers' Forum では、Harumi Kimura と Vick Ssali が特定のトピックに焦点を絞ったリスニングとリーディングの利点について語っています。次にIain Campbell による、Second Life上のバーチャル英語学校 Drive-Through ESL の創始者であり経営者でもあるGiovannni Tweak のインタビューがご覧いただけます。

さらにMy Share では、Charlie Canning による学生の基本的なリサーチスキルアップを奨励するアクティビティーと、Luke Fryer の学生からフィードバックを得る方法が取り上げられています。Book Reviews では、Mayumi Asaba が Active Skills for Communication Book 1 について述べています。もちろんその他にも、今月号はおなじみの記事でいっぱいです。

来月号は JALT 年次大会準備号となります。今年の11月、静岡で何が起こるか...たっぷりお楽しみいただけることと思います。
それでは、その時まで...。

Theron Muller
Coeditor