Volume: 
33
Issue No.: 
7
Date: 
2009-07
Groups audience: 
The Language Teacher

JALT2009 Pre-Conference Special Issue

Plenary Speaker

  • Perspective taking - by Christina Pearson Casanave
  • The dialectics of instructed second language development - by James P. Lantolf
  • Globalization and English language teaching: Opportunities and challenges in Japan - by Aya Matsuda
  • Languaging and second/foreign language learning - by Merrill Swain
  • Seven ways of looking at grammar: One way of looking at grammar-as "Grammar McNuggets" - by Scott Thornbury

Featured Speaker

  • Building students'confidence through simple, step-by-step activities - by Angela Buckingham
  • Extensive reading or intensive reading: Two sides of the same coin? - by Miles Craven
  • Introducing corpora into the language classroom - by Nicholas Groom
  • A global view from your classroom window - by Kristin L. Johannsen
  • Functional literacy and contextual learning theories applied to English language learning - by April Alcazar
  • Design, Zen, & the art of presenting naked - by Garr Reynolds
  • Business English and TOEIC®: Similar goals, similar methodologies - by Andrew Trew