Recently Received - July 2022

Recently Received

* = new listing; ! = final notice — Final notice items will be removed on August 31. Please make queries by email to the appropriate JALT Publications contact.

Books for Students (reviews published in TLT)

Contact: Julie Kimura — jaltpubs.tlt.pub.review@jalt.org

• Penguin Readers—Penguin Books, 2019. [Penguin Readers is a series of classics, contemporary fiction, and non-fiction, written for learners of English.]
• The hound of the Baskervilles—Doyle, A. C. [Retold by A. Trewin. Sir Charles Baskerville is dead. Can Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson stop the hound from killing again? Level: Starter, CEFR Pre-A1.]
• Tales of adventurous girls—[Retold by F. Mackenzie & F. Mauchline. Four folk tales tell the stories of brave girls from four different countries: Zanzibar, Japan, India, and China. Level: 1, CEFR A1.]
• Boy—Dahl, R. [Illustrated by Q. Blake. Retold by E. Dowsett. The story of the famous writer Roald Dahl when he was a boy. Level: 2, CEFR A1+.]
• Dracula—Stoker, B. [Adapted by H. Holwill. Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula to buy a house in England. While he is there, he discovers terrible things about his client. As strange things begin to happen in England, Jonathan sees that Count Dracula must be stopped! Level: 3, CEFR A2.]
• Pride and prejudice—Austen, J. [Retold by C. Degnan-Veness. Elizabeth Bennett meets Mr. Darcy, a rich man who owns land. At first, she hates him, but slowly her feelings start to change. Can she fight her pride and find happiness? Level: 4, CEFR A2+.]
• Wuthering Heights—Brontë, E. [Retold by A. Trewin. A man rides through Yorkshire to visit a house called Wuthering Heights, where he learns about Catherine, who lived there years before. Her story of love and sadness still affects those in the present. Level: 5, CEFR B1.]
• New getting into English—Cronin, J., & Bray, E. Nan’un-do, 2021. [This coursebook was written for Japanese learners of English who need to review what they learned in junior high and high school. The text is filled with enjoyable, communicative activities, so students will have opportunities to improve speaking, listening, and pronunciation skills. Audio download available.]
• ! Shape it! It’s your world—Cochrane, S., Lewis, S., Reid, A., Thacker, C., Vincent, D., & Wilson, M. Cambridge University Press, 2020. [Through a combination of learner training and project work, this four-level series of coursebooks helps high school students become more confident and independent learners. Materials include textbook and workbook for students as well as classroom audio, teacher’s book and project book with a digital resource pack.]
• * Teaching and learning haiku in English—McMurray, D. The International University of Kagoshima, 2022. [The practice of writing haiku in second language classrooms is demonstrated in this English language education text for students in elementary school through high school. The book provides examples of how students can learn to write English in the classroom, suggests ways to teach haiku in English using information and communication technologies (ICT), and explains how to organize contests by and for students.
• * Teaching English in secondary school: A handbook of essentials—Siegel, J. Studentlitteratur, 2022. [This book provides a summary of the fundamental concepts in the field of second language acquisition. Topics covered include communicative language teaching, the psychology of language learning, as well as the four main skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This book serves both as an introduction to novice second language instructors as well as a reference for practicing teachers.]

Books for Teachers (reviews published in JALT Journal)

Contact: Greg Rouault ­— jaltpubs.jj.reviews@jalt.org

• *Research questions in language education and applied linguistics—Mohebbi, H., & Coombe, C. (Eds.). Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79143-8
• *Understanding L2 proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations—Jeon, E.H., & In’nami, Y. (Eds.). John Benjamins, 2022.
• *Research methods for digital discourse analysis—Vásquez, C. (Ed.). Bloomsbury, 2022.