ERIC ED451716: The Language Teacher, 1999.

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The Language Teacher, 1999.
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ABSTRACT
This journal is a monthly publication of the Japan
Association for Language Teaching (JALT), a nonprofit professional
organization of language teaches dedicated to the improvement of language
learning and teaching in Japan. ,?ALT'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. Each issue of the
journal contains several sections and departments: feature articles; opinions
and perspectives; net nuggets; my share (where teachers share some of their
most successful and innovative teaching techniques and classroom activities);
JALT undercover (a survey of some of the latest developments in the field of
language teaching and learning); and JALT departments, whidh includes news,
book reviews, items recently received, a bulletin board, events of national
significance, JALT chapter reports and meetings, a conference calendar, a job
information center with a listing of positions, and an advertiser index.
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The Language Teacher, 1999.
Bill Lee, Editor
Volume 23, Numbers 1-12
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Introduction
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1998 TESOL RussiaFar East International
37
Conference
feature articles
by Stephen Ryan
Functional Grammar, Register and Genre
9
Theory in the Language Classroom: An In-
a chapter in your life
terview with James Robert Martin
Toyohashi
39
by Nathan Edwards
Beyond the Sentence: Finding a Balance
11
my share
Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Read-
The Poster Preview Task
41
ing Approaches
by Keith Ford
by Pddraic Frehan
Jigsaw Crossword Puzzles for Conversa-
42
tion Management and Lexical Review
Local Area Networks: Online Communica-
15
by Keith Lane with Roberta Golliher
tion in the Japanese EFL Classroom
Pass It On: A Flexible Activity
43
by Phillip Markley & John Herbert
by Stu Ruttan
Questionnaire Construction and Classroom
19
MIT
news special
Research
by Dale T. Griffee
Standing Committee on Employment Prac-
45
tices: Report from the JALT President
Illegal Drug Issues in the Classroom
23
by Gene van Troyer
by Kyoko Yamada
departments
Comparative Cultures Course: Education
27
Book Reviews
47
in Ten Countries
Recently Received
49
by Carol Browning, Kawagishi Masako,
JALT News
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& Seto Harulco
Bulletin Board
51
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Of National SIGnificance
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Conference Calendar
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Studies: Japanese Students Working on
Job Information Center/Positions
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Since last year, nearly all of the work of editing, compiling, and proofreading TLT has been transferred from phone, fax,
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Our first issue of 1999 opens with an interview by Nathan Edwards of J. R. Martin, a leading researcher in the field of regis-
ter and genre theory and its practical applications to teacher training and curriculum design. Martin shares his views on func-
tional grammar in the classroom. The next article, by Padraic Frehan, discusses the roles of background knowledge and
prediction skills in improving reading skills. Phillip Markley and John Herbert introduce their work with Local Area Net-
works (LANs), in which entire writing classes take part in real-rime conferences.
In response to concerns over the misuse of questionnaires in research being conducted by classroom teachers and others in
Japan, Dale T. Griffee has contributed an article which introduces basic procedures for constructing questionnaires that are in ,
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Kyoko Yamada presents her high school English language classroom curriculum which addresses illegal drug issues in Ja-
pan and abroad.
Carol Browning, Kawagishi Masako, and Seto Haruko introduce their year-long university course which examines ten
world cultures. They present a number of activities they use in class and include'a list of the materials they have found to be
successful.
Our Japanese language feature article this month by Umeda Hajime reports: the results of a research study of Japanese students
in regular academic programs at Americanuniversitiesndtheir attitudes toward theif studies.,
Finally, Stephen Ryan reports_ on the 1998 TES01. RussiaFar East International Conference, held in September in
Khabarovsk, Russia.
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