Preface
On JALT2005: Sharing Our Stories
The theme of the JALT2005 conference was Sharing our Stories. This theme, supported by innovative presentation formats, inspired both presenters and attendees alike, resulting in a convivial conference atmosphere. The manuscripts selected for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings represent the broad range of papers, workshops, demonstrations, and poster sessions in which researchers, teachers, material writers, and students shared their stories of language learning and teaching, with a special emphasis on practice in the Japanese context.
The papers in the Proceedings have been designated according to their focus to categories including: Issues in the profession, The learner, The language, Approaches to instruction, Teaching with technology, Of global importance for learners and teachers, Reading and writing, Testing and evaluation, and Teaching languages other than English. The contributions reflect current issues and practice in the field of foreign language instruction as described by the conference theme.
In this Conference Proceedings you will find over 100 papers in which we hope you will find information and ideas to support and motivate you in your learning, teaching, and research. We also hope that this volume encourages further cooperation, collaboration, and discussion of language learning and teaching contexts by teachers, students, material designers, and researchers.
We owe our sincere appreciation and gratitude to the dedicated team of volunteers who worked tirelessly to bring the Proceedings to press: Robert Betts, Torkil Christensen, Scott Gardner, Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska (Japanese Editor), Robert Long, Theron Muller, Ted O'Neill, Greg Rouault, Michael Schart (German Editor), Joseph Sheehan, Robert Taferner, our Reading Committee, and, finally, the authors.
We look forward to exploring the JALT2006 conference theme of Community, Identity, Motivation in next year's Proceedings.
The Editors
Kim Bradford-Watts
Cecilia Ikeguchi
Malcolm Swanson
Editorial Staff
Editors
- Content
- Kim Bradford-Watts
- Cecilia Ikeguchi
- Administrative
- Malcolm Swanson
Associate Editors
- Robert Betts
- Torkil Christensen
- Scott Gardner
- Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska (Japanese Editor)
- Robert Long
- Theron Muller
- Ted O'Neill
- Greg Rouault
- Michael Schart (German Editor)
- Joseph Sheehan
- Robert Taferner
Design, Layout, and Web Editing
- Pukeko Graphics (Paul Collett & Malcolm Swanson)
Published by
The Japan Association for Language Teaching
August 2006
Tokyo, Japan
Copyright & Cataloguing Data
- JALT President: Steve Brown
- Publications Board Chair: Amanda O'Brien
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 by the Japan Association for Language Teaching. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced in any form without written permission from JALT, except in cases of brief quotations embodied in scholarly articles and reviews.
For information
JALT2005 Conference Proceedings, JALT Central Office, Urban Edge Bldg., 5th Floor, 1-37-9 Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0016, JAPAN
Cataloging Data
Bradford-Watts, Ikeguchi, Swanson (eds.)
On JALT2005: Sharing Our Stories
Bibliography:
1. Second Language Teaching—Second Language Learning—Teacher Education
1. Title
August 2006
ISBN: 4-901352-20-2 (JALT2005 Conference Proceedings)
