Volume: 
21
Issue No.: 
10
Date: 
1997-10
Groups audience: 
The Language Teacher

Note: As digital versions of this issue of TLT do not exist, some material is not available online (see bottom of page for material available online). Paper copies of articles can, however, be purchased from JALT Central Office.

Introduction

Features

  • Computer -Adaptive Testing of Listening Comprehension: A Blueprint for CAT Development -- by Patricia A. Dunkel
  • Textbook Evaluation Form -- by James Brown
  • Investigating and Responding to Student Attitudes and Suggestions for Course Improvement -- by Robert W. Long III
  • Fostering Learner Awareness on Autonomy: Case of Learner Training (in Japanese) -- by Usuki Miyuki

Conference speakers

  • Dimensions in the Diversity of Language: A Language Testing Perspective -- by Don Porter
  • English and Capital: Some Thoughts -- by Alastair Pennycook
  • Teacher Training and Teacher Development: A Useful Dichotomy -- by Penny Ur
  • Decision-making in Language Learning: A Lens for Examining Learner Strategies -- by Devon Woods

Special feature

  • Creative Course Design
  • A Japan-America Cross-Cultural Syllabus: Focussing on Some Essential Elements of Culture -- by Paul Stapleton

Opinion & perspectives

  • MA by Distance Learning -- by Annette Kaye

My share

  • Using Audiotapes to Assess Student Speech -- by Robert W. Long III

JALT undercover

  • A Way With Words
  • Christine's Easy English Conversation for Nurses
  • Beginning Reading Practice: Building Vocabulary Strategies
  • Recently Received

Departments

  • JALT news
  • Bulletin Board
  • Of National Significance
  • Chapter Reports
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Conference Calendar
  • Center/Positions
  • Advertiser's Index