The Language Teacher - Issue 32.7; July 2008

JALT2008 Pre-Conference Special Issue

Plenary Speaker

• Myth and reality in foreign language education for young learners - by Yuko Goto Butler

• English and globalisation: Today and tomorrow - by David Graddol

• Variation in World Englishes: Implications for the ELT classroom - by Andy Kirkpatrick

Featured Speaker

• The self-directed learning approach and Thai students as active learners - by Akara Akaranithi

• Stories: Feeding language learners for life - by Jennifer Bassett

• Teaching foreign language reading fluency - by Richard R. Day

• Developing intercultural competence: Reexamining the goal and role of language education - by Alvino E. Fantini

• Relating culture to the teaching of communication strategies - by Alastair Graham-Marr

• Brain-based learning and the active approach - by Curtis Kelly & Chuck Sandy

• Raising language awareness by investigating the linguistic landscape - by Chris Kennedy

• What really is fun for children studying EFL? - by Yoko Matsuka

• Profiling spoken fluency - by Michael McCarthy

• Communities fo practice: How teachers construe their teaching - by Scott Thornbury

• International standards and national examinations: The Russian experience - by Maria Verbitskaya

• Using process writing to nurture successful writers - by Dorothy E. Zemach

My Share

• Digital cameras and blackboard memos: Living handouts from the classroom in action - by Kristen Sullivan

• Making the laws - by Andy Hockersmith

Book Reviews

• Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary of American English (with CD-ROM) - by Jim Ronald

Member's Profile

• RJ Frampton

Grassroots

• What are the roles of the Japanese TLT staff? Read on and find out! - by Sachiko Takahashi

• Hiroshima: Fukuyama Children's Conference - by Ewen Ferguson