The Language Teacher - Issue 21.1; January 1997 | JALT Publications

Volume: 21
Issue No. 1
Date of publication: January 1997
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Introduction

• by Antony Cominos, Editor

Features

• Can a Knowledge of Japanese Help our EFL Teaching? by John R. Yamamoto-Wilson
• Teaching Speaking: Suggestions for the Classroom by Robert Sanborn Brown & Paul Nation
• A Modified Version of Redundancia -- An Approach to Education in Intercultural Communication (In Japanese) by Muramatsu Mieko

Special features

• TESTING: Test Purposes by Greta J. Gorsuch
• CREATIVE COURSE DESIGN: A Syllabus for Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication by Steven L. Rosen
• EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS: Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation: A Great Idea or a Waste of Time? by James Dean Brown & Kate Wolfe-Quintero
• LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THE INTERNET: An Introduction to the World Wide Web by Tim Newfields & Steve McGuire

Readers' views

• College Credit for High School Work? by Monty Vierra

My share

• A Report: My Share Live! at JALT 96 by David Kluge
• Katakana is not English by Sandra J. Smith
• Whispers by Steven Templin

Undercover

• Words Will Travel 1 & 2 reviewed by Robert Gee
• The Newbury House Dictionary of American English: An Essential Reference for Learners of American English and Culture reviewed by Ron Grove
• On the Write Track (2nd ed.) reviewed by Paul Binford
• Getting Started in Public Speaking reviewed by Glenn D. Gagné
• More Grammar Games: Cognitive, Affective and Movement Activities for EFL Students reviewed by Sean Bermingham
• Marathon Mouth: A Cooperative Learning Book for Large Classes reviewed by Wilma Wilcox
• Weaving It Together Book 2 reviewed by John Jones
• OnLine: The Fast Route to Fluency reviewed by Errol MacDonald
• Conducting Tracer Studies in Adult Language and Literacy Programs reviewed by Howard Doyle
• Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-cultural Aspects of Second-language Learning reviewed by Duncan Dixon
• Family Album, U.S.A.: Classroom Video Course, Book 2 reviewed by Sandra Ishikawa
• Culture Connection reviewed by Amy D. Yamashiro
• Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education reviewed by Heather Bolichowski
• Recently Received compiled by Julien Whitney

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Contents

The Language Teacher

Introduction
by Antony Cominos

Can a Knowledge of Japanese Help our EFL Teaching?
by John R. Yamamoto-Wilson, Sophia University

Teaching Speaking: Suggestions for the Classroom
by Robert Sanborn Brown & Paul Nation, Kyoto City University of Arts & Victoria University, Wellington

Test Purposes
by Greta J. Gorsuch Mejiro University

Creative Course Design: A Syllabus for Teaching Cross-Cultural Communication
by Steven L. Rosen, Hiroshima Women's University

Teacher Portfolios for Evaluation: A Great Idea or a Waste of Time?
by James Dean Brown & Kate Wolfe-Quintero, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

An Introduction to the World Wide Web
by Tim Newfields & Steve McGuire

College Credit for High School Work?
by Monty Vierra, Hsu Shan Electric, Taiwan

My Share

A Report: My Share Live! at JALT96
by David Kluge

Katakana is not English
by Sandra J. Smith, Hiroshima Suzugamine Women's College

Whispers
by Stephen Templin, Kakio High School, Kanagawa Prefecture