The Language Teacher
October 2007

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Excerpts from the Proceedings

Difficulties in L2 songwriting
- by Brian Cullen
A sense of community through Nikkei
- by Donna Fujimoto, Laura Kusaka & Susan Sakayori
A comparison of the 4th grade curriculum and daily life in a Japanese public school and an international school in Kyoto
- by Amanda Gillis-Furutaka
The treatment of identities in postwar EFL textbooks for ninth graders
- by Naoko Harada
Using group dynamics in the classroom
- by Cheryl Kirchhoff
Using drama to motivate EFL Students: Building classroom communities and student identities
- by Dean Charles
Creating community of self-directed learners
- by Alice Lee
Communities of supportive professionals
- by Kazuyoshi Sato, Michael Cholewinski, Steve Cornwell, Juanita Kiyokawa & Nobuyuki Takaki
Difficult Students: Who, why, and responses
- by Miguel Sosa
Pros and cons of a class podcast project: Evaluating a classroom innovation
- by Kristen Sullivan
Raising children in two languages and communities
- by Satoko Suzuki
Choice of task topic: Are the students more motivated?
- by John Thurman
Teacher use of students' first language: Introducing the FIFU checklist
- by Suzanne Yonesaka & Mitsutada Metoki

My Share

Personality Concentration
- by Lori Ann Desrosiers
Using listening for writing? Playing podcasts in composition courses
- by Brian Rubrecht

Book Reviews

A Practical Guide to Using Computers in Language Teaching
- Reviewed by Michael Thomas
Workouft or the TOEIC Test Books 1 and 2
- by Daniel Dunkley

Wired

Speech to text and back: New voice tools for CALL
- by Lawrie Hunter

Showcase

Languagecaster.com
- with Damian Rivers

Grassroots

What's in the news: A jalt.org primer
- by Paul Collett

Outreach

Language teaching in Bangladesh
- by David McMurray

Departments

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The Language Teacher Online: Issue 31.10; October 2007 Special Issue: A Taste of JALT2006