The Language Teacher - Issue 32.1; January 2008

Feature Article

• Classroom anxiety: Changes in student attitudes in an English oral communication class in a Japanese senior high school - by Noriko Kurihara

Readers' Forum

• Crossing Borders: Example in practice - by Tim Murphey, Keiko Okad, Yuka Iijima, & Chitose Asaoka

My Share

• Encouraging communication through individual, pair, and group work - by Reiko Mori
• Using case studies for teaching medical English to undergraduate students in medicine - by Najma Janjua
• Discourse cards - by Jim Smiley
• Authenticity required - by Daniel Droukis

TLTBook Reviews

• Lecture Ready 2 - Reviewed by Tim Knight
• The Active Learner: Strategies for the Real World - Reviewed by Joshua Cohen

Member's Profile

• Brian McMillan

Grassroots

• A tale of two conferences - by Martin Pauly
• Enjoying our diversity - by Cynthia Keith