The Language Teacher

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This site contains excerpts fromThe Language Teacher, the monthly publication of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai ). Articles are chosen to represent a broad spectrum of the publication. Look for a new issue on the 20th of each month.
Formed in 1976, JALT is a non-profit professional organization of language teachers dedicated to promoting excellence in language learning and teaching in Japan. JALT's publications and events serve as vehicles for the exchange of new ideas and techniques, and a means of keeping abreast of new developments in a rapidly changing field. JALT welcomes members of any nationality, regardless of the language taught.
All materials in this publication are copyright © 1998 by their respective authors.

introduction

call special issue: feature articles

• Learning Online: Choosing the Best Computer-mediated Communication Activities
  - by Ishbel Galloway and Douglas O'Brien

• Using E-Mail with your Students
  - by John Bauman

• Godzilla Can MOO, Can You? MOOs for Construction, Collaboration & Community and Research
  - by Lawrence (Larry) B. Davies, Lesley Shield, and Markus J. Weininger

• Developing Your Own CALL Software: The Impossible Dream?
  - by Frank Berberich

• Potential Problems in CALL: For Further Development (in Japanese)
  - by Kizuka Masataka

• "Where In CALL Is Carmen Sandiego?" An Evaluative Software Review
  - by Stephen A. Shucart

my share

• Search Engines: Access Isn't Enough
  - by Scott H. Rule

• Information Gap: A New Application in the CALL Environment
  - by Albert Dudley

• CALL wo tsukatta kanji shidou no kokoromi (in Japanese)
  - by Saeko Komori and Miki Ueda

jalt undercover

• Software for Young EFL Learners Let's Go Interactive, Finding Olt Gogo's Adventures with English, Engage
• A Brief Review of Electonic Learners' Dictionaries Longman Interactive English Dictionary, Oxford Wordpower Dictionary, COBUILD on CD-ROM, Interactive American Dictionary
• Voice Recognition and CALL NaturallySpeaking, Triple Play Plus, Dynamic English
• Recently Received

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