The Language Teacher - Issue 34.1; January 2010

The Language Teacher

• Feature Article: The Socratic trap: A strategic snare that EFL teachers should sidestep
  by Mark de Boer
• Feature Article: University accreditation in Japan: Problems and possibilities for reforming EFL education
  by Bern Mulvey
• Reader's Forum: Considerations for activity and task selection in Japanese elementary school English communication lessons
  by Richard J. Sampson
• Reader's Forum: Using Photo News materials in the EFL classroom
  by Ken Schmidt
• Reader's Forum: “We might get talked about, but no one ever shows us.” Talking about Privilege with artist Gary McLeod
  by Thomas Amundrud

Book Reviews

• Write on Task 2
  by Matthew Wallace, Kanto International High School

• Chapter Reports - January 2010
• Education beyond the classroom
• Minding your p’s and q’s: qroofreading for The Language Teacher
• JALT and our international partner associations: Meeting challenges together
• The JACET-Kanto 4th Annual Convention
• Member’s Profile: Michael D. Post

JALT Focus

• Volunteering for JALT
  by Marcos Benevides

Career Development Corner

• From Japan to the United Arab Emirates
  by Ben Lehtinen

My Share

• Creating student dialog animations
  by Sylvan Payne, International Christian University
• Getting it off your chest
  by Mark Rebuck, Nagoya City University

SIG Focus

• SIG News - January 2010

TLT Wired

• Elgg: Social networking for language students
  by Malcolm Swanson, Seinan Jo Gakuin University

Old Grammarians

• Works of art that need work
  by Scott Gardner