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The 2021 EUROCALL conference engaged just under 250 speakers from 40 different countries. Cnam Paris and Sorbonne Université joined forces to host and organise the event despite the challenging context due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally programmed to be held on site in the heart of Paris, France, the EUROCALL organising team and executive committee agreed to opt for a blended and then for a fully online conference. The theme of the 2021 EUROCALL conference was "CALL & Professionalisation". This volume, a selection of 54 short papers by some of the EUROCALL 2021 presenters, offers a combination of research studies as well as practical examples fairly representative of the theme of the conference. [This content is provided in the format of an e-book. Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the EUROCALL society succeeded in holding the 28th EUROCALL conference, EUROCALL2020, on 20-21 August as an online, two-day gathering. The transition process required to make this happen was demanding and insightful for everyone involved, and, in many ways, a logical consequence of the core content and purpose of EUROCALL. Who would be better suited to transform an onsite conference into an online event than EUROCALL? CALL for widening participation was this year's theme. We welcomed contributions from both theoretical and practical perspectives in relation to the many forms and contexts of CALL. We particularly welcomed longitudinal studies or studies that revisited earlier studies. The academic committee accepted 300 abstracts for paper presentations, symposia, workshops, and posters under this theme; 57 short papers are published in this volume. We hope you will enjoy reading this volume, the first one to reflect a one hundred percent online EUROCALL conference/Online Gathering. [This content is provided in the format of an e-book. Individual papers are indexed in ERIC.]

Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions. Following a preface (Breffni O'Rourke) and introduction (Sake Jager, Malgorzata Kurek, and Breffni O'Rourke), selected papers from this conference presented herein include: (1) Telecollaboration and student mobility for language learning (Celeste Kinginger); (2) A task is a task is a task is a task… or is it? Researching telecollaborative teacher competence development--the need for more qualitative research (Andreas Müller-Hartmann); (3) Learner autonomy and telecollaborative language learning (David Little); (4) Developing intercultural communicative competence across the Americas (Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco, Oscar Mora, and Andrea Serna Collazos); (5) CHILCAN: a Chilean-Canadian intercultural telecollaborative language exchange (Constanza Rojas-Primus); (6) Multifaceted dimensions of telecollaboration through English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Paris-Valladolid intercultural telecollaboration project (Paloma Castro and Martine Derivry-Plard); (7) Student perspectives on intercultural learning from an online teacher education partnership (Shannon Sauro); (8) Blogging as a tool for intercultural learning in a telecollaborative study (Se Jeong Yang); (9) Intergenerational telecollaboration: what risks for what rewards? (Erica Johnson); (10) Telecollaboration, challenges and oppportunities (Emmanuel Abruquah, Ildiko Dosa, and Grazyna Duda); (11) Exploring telecollaboration through the lens of university students: a Spanish-Cypriot telecollaborative exchange (Anna Nicolaou and Ana Sevilla-Pavón); (12) A comparison of telecollaborative classes between Japan and Asian-Pacific countries -- Asian-Pacific Exchange Collaboration (APEC) project (Yoshihiko Shimizu, Dwayne Pack, Mikio Kano, Hiroyuki Okazaki, and Hiroto Yamamura); (13) Incorporating cross-cultural videoconferencing to enhance Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at the tertiary level (Barbara Loranc-Paszylk); (14) Multimodal strategies allowing corrective feedback to be softened during webconferencing-supported interactions (Ciara R. Wigham and Julie Vidal); (15) Problem-solving interaction in GFL videoconferencing (Makiko Hoshii and Nicole Schumacher); (16) Interactional dimension of online asynchronous exchange in an asymmetric telecollaboration (Dora Loizidou and François Mangenot); (17) Telecollaboration in secondary EFL: a blended teacher education course (Shona Whyte and Linda Gijsen); (18) It takes two to tango: online teacher tandems for teaching in English (Jennifer Valcke and Elena Romero Alfaro); (19) Getting their feet wet: trainee EFL teachers in Germany and Israel collaborate online to promote their telecollaboration competence through experiential learning (Tina Waldman, Efrat Harel, and Götz Schwab); (20) Teacher competences for telecollaboration: the role of coaching (Sabela Melchor-Couto and Kristi Jauregi); (21) Preparing student mobility through telecollaboration (Marta Giralt and Catherine Jeanneau); (22) What are the perceived effects of telecollaboration compared to other communication-scenarios with peers? (Elke Nissen); (23) The "Bologna-München" Tandem -- experiencing interculturality (Sandro De Martino); (24) Comparing the development of transversal skills between virtual and physical exchanges (Bart van der Velden, Sophie Millner, and Casper van der Heijden); (25) Making virtual exchange/telecollaboration mainstream -- large scale exchanges (Eric Hagley); (26) Searching for telecollaboration in secondary geography education in Germany (Jelena Deutscher); (27) Communication strategies in a telecollaboration project with a focus on Latin American history (Susana S. Fernández); (28) Students' perspective on Web 2.0-enhanced telecollaboration as added value in translator education (Mariusz Marczak); (29) Intercultural communication for professional development: creative approaches in higher education (Linda Joy Mesh); (30) Illustrating challenges and practicing competencies for global technology-assisted collaboration: lessons from a real-time north-south teaching collaboration (Stephen Capobianco, Nadia Rubaii, and Sebastian Líppez-De Castro); (31) Telecollaboration as a tool for building intercultural and interreligious understanding: the Sousse-Villanova programme (Jonathan Mason); (32) Vicious cycles of turn negotiation in video-mediated telecollaboration: interactional sociolinguistics perspective (Yuka Akiyama); (33) A corpus-based study of the use of pronouns in the asynchronous discussion forums in the online intercultural exchange MexCo (Marina Orsini-Jones, Zoe Gazeley-Eke, and Hannah Leinster); (34) Cooperative autonomy in online lingua franca exchanges: A case study on foreign language education in secondary schools (Petra Hoffstaedter and Kurt Kohn); (35) Emerging affordances in telecollaborative multimodal interactions (Aparajita Dey-Plissonneau and Françoise Blin); (36) Telecollaboration in online communities for L2 learning (Maria Luisa Malerba and Christine Appel); (37) Fostering students' engagement with topical issues through different modes of online exchange (Marie-Thérèse Batardière and Francesca Helm); (38) A conversation analysis approach to researching eTandems--the challenges of data collection (Julia Renner); and (39) DOTI: Databank of Oral Teletandem Interactions (Solange Aranha and Paola Leone). An author index is included. Individual papers contain references.

EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) in education and training. During 20 years the organization has brought together educators, researchers, PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, government representatives, equipment and software suppliers and other professionals involved in CALL and TELL. Some of the areas covered during the conference were: (1)???? Recent developments in mobile learning; (2)???? Language learning in virtual environments; ????(3) Synchronous communication in language learning; (4) European Language Portfolio, self assessment and ICT; ????(5) Challenges of e-learning: the role of the institution; ????(6) E-learning: student expectations and experience; ????(7) Successes of e-learning through the eyes of the student; ????(8) The use of new technologies for language teaching in schools; ????(9) Promoting the use of new technologies amongst language teaching professionals; ????(10) Developments in the pedagogy of online learning; ????(11) Corpora and language learning; (12) Courseware design; ??(13) Cross-sector collaboration through e-learning; ????(14) Supporting less widely taught languages through CALL; ????(15) Improving intercultural competence through language learning; ????(16) Managing multimedia environments; ????(17) Distance and collaborative learning; and (18) Self access and learner autonomy. An author index and a name index are included. (Individual papers contain references.)

This collection of papers includes: "Language Learning Motivation: The Student, the Teacher, and the Researcher" (Robert C. Gardner); "The Self-Reported Perspectives Regarding Academic Writing among Taiwanese Graduate Students Specializing in TEFL" (Robert Johanson); "Contradictions, Appropriation, and Transformation: An Activity Theory Approach to L2 Writing and Classroom Practices" (Charles P. Nelson, Mi-Kyung Kim); "Constructivist Inspiration: A Project-Based Model for L2 Learning in Virtual Worlds" (Rebekah Taveau and Marina Bolotin); "Inquiry Cycles in a Whole Language Foreign Language Class: Some Theoretical and Practical Insights" (David Schwarzer and Chris Luke); "Task-Sequencing in L2 Acquisition" (Rafael Salaberry); "Knowledge of English Collocations: An Analysis of Taiwanese EFL Learners" (Li-Szu Huang); "Vowel Quality and Consonant Voicing: The Production of English Vowels and Final Stops by Korean Speakers of English" (Mi-Lim Ryoo); "Functions of Discourse Markers in Japanese" (Yasuko Fujita); and "Cross Cultural Varieties of Politeness" (Junko Hondo and Bridget Goodman). (Individual papers contain references.) (SM)

This collection of papers comprises proceedings from the 5th English in South East Asia Conference, held in December 2000 at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. The 19 papers include the following: (1) "Global English and Local Language Policies" (Robert Phillipson); (2) "Hong Kong Parents' Preference for English-Medium Education: Passive Victims of Imperialism or Active Agents of Pragmatism?" (David Li); (3) "Implications of the Recommendation that English Become the Second Official Language in Japan" (Kayako Hashimoto); (4) "Culture and Identity in the English Discourses of Mayalsians" (Azirah Mashim); (5) "Englishization and Nativization Processes in the Context of Brunei Darussalam: Evidence for and Against" (Hajaj Rosnah Haji Ramly, Noor Azam Haji Othman, and James McLellan); (6) "Kissing Cousins? The Relationship between English and Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea" (Geoff Smith); (7) "Chaos in Aboriginal English Discourse" (Farzad Sharifian); (8) "Language, Literature and Culture--and Their Meeting Place in the Dictionary" (Susan Butler); (9) "Even Obituaries Reflect Cultural Norms and Values" (Maya Khemlani David and Janet Y. Yong); (10) "Recent Research into the Pronunciation of Singapore English" (Low Ee Ling and David Deterding); (11) "Languages in Contact: Hong Kong English Phonology and the Influence of Cantonese" (Tony Hung); (12) "Canon and Pedagogy: The Role of American Colonial Education and Defining Standards for Philippine Literature" (Isabel Pefianco Martin); (13) "ASEAN and Asian Cultures and Models: Implications for The ELT Curriculum and for Teacher Education" (Andy Kirkpatrick); (14) "From TEFL to TEIL: Changes in Perceptions and Practices: Teaching English as an International Language in Chinese Universities" (Xy Zhichang); (15) "Reflective Discourse in Teacher Education in Brunei Darussalam" (David Lochmohr Prescott); (16) "Alternative English: Vernacular Oral Art among Aboriginal Youth" (Ian Malcom); (17) "A Study of the Language of Pre-School Malaysian Children" (Kow Yip Cheng); (18) "Communication Behaviours of EFL Learners in a Native English-Speaker Teacher's Class: A Case in Hong Kong" (Jasmine Luk); and (19) "Multilingual Practices in Rural Malaysia and Their Impact on English Language Learning in Rural Education" (Hazita Azman). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

Papers from a 1993 International Conference on Language in Education include: "A Language Development Approach to Education" (M. A. K. Halliday); Text, Talk, and Inquiry: Schooling as a Semiotic Apprenticeship" (G. Wells); "Chinese Orthography and Reading" (O. J. L. Tzeng); "Task-Centred Assessment in Language Learning" (G. Brindley); "Task as a Unit of Teaching Analysis" (S. J. Hall); "Using a Functional Approach in Assessing Written Texts" (D. Nunan); "Steppe by Step: A Cultural Approach to Language Tasks" (C. Barron); "Coherence and Continuity in the Task-Centred Language Curriculum: Global Education as a Framework for Task-Based Language Teaching" (B. Bushell, B. Dyer); "From Task Description to Task Enactment: Teachers' Interpretation of Language Learning Tasks" (G. T. Sachs, S. Kong, A. Lo, T. Lee); "How Students Revise Propositions" (P. Falvey, S. Sengupta); "Writing from Sources: Does Source Material Help or Hinder Students' Performance?" (J. A. Lewkowicz); "Effects of Signalling on Reading Comprehension" (I. K. B. Lee); "The Variety and Effectiveness of Strategies Employed in Vocabulary Explanations in EFL Classes in Hong Kong" (A. L. On-lai); "English Extensive Reading in the Primary Curriculum" (V. Yu, E. Chu, S. Yuen-lan, R. Yau); "Investigating Lexis beyond the Most Frequent Words, Part 2" (N. Bird); "The Future Role of EFL Textbook Resources in Hong Kong" (B. Adamson, J. C. K. Lee); "Concordancing for School" (V. Pickard, K. Chan, J. Tibbetts); "What Makes Authentic Materials Different? The Case of English Language Materials for Educational Television" (A. McNeill); "Resources for the Independent EFL Learner in Japan" (S. M. Ryan); "Action Research Contributes More to Teaching Than Just Solving Discrete Problems in the Classroom" (A. Mueller); "Computer-Mediated Communication and Teacher Education: The Case of Telenex" (D. Coniam, S. Sengupta, A. B. M. Tsui, W. Kam-yin); "Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Good and Poor Chinese EFL Learners" (G. Yong-qi); "Chinese Readers' Metacognitive Awareness in Reading Chinese and English" (C. Chern); "The Impact of Illustrations and Cultural Schemata on Hong Kong Pupils' Reading Comprehension and Recall of Text" (T. Dolan); "Word Printed Frequency/Familiarity and Structure Complexity Effects on L1 and L2 Word Recognition Processes in Chinese" (Y. Sun); "A Word in Your Ear: To What Extent Does Hearing a New Word Help Learners To Remember It?" (M. Hill); "Pig in the Middle? Effects of Mediating Tasks on Cognitive Processing of Text" (D. M. Allison, V. Berry, J. Lewkowicz); "The Assessment of Spoken Language Under varying Interactional Conditions" (V. Berry); "The Grammatical Awareness and Knowledge of Hong Kong Teachers of English" (S. Andrews); "Some Characteristics of Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English" (A. McNeill); and "Using Concurrent Verbal Reports as Teaching Tools in Language Teacher Education" (M. Falvey). (MSE)

As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience or with school employment. This course, Education 5900 Culminating Experience, requires the student to implement an action research plan designed through (a) the Education 5010 Methods of Educational Research course, (b) a required learning assessment required during student teaching, or (c) a newly-designed project. The course is, also, taken by elementary and secondary teachers who are, already, licensed to teach. The action research projects, from spring semester 2016 (part 2), are presented. This Action Research Project includes: (1) Second Language Acquisition and Vocabulary Instruction in an ESOL Classroom: Which Model Works Best? (Bradley Balthrop); (2) Action Research Study of Classical Teaching Methods vs. Active Learning Methods in the Middle School Social Studies Classroom (Brian Bass); (3) A Case Study Documenting the Effects of Response to Intervention Practices on Mathematics Success in Elementary Education (Jessica Kane); and (4) The Different Approaches to Teaching English as a Second Language in Japan and the U.S. and How this Affects the Student's English Skills (Asami Nakano). (Individual papers contain references, figures, and appendices.) [For "Culminating Experience Action Research Projects, Volume 18, Part 1, Spring 2016," see ED573167.]

This book offers a collection of original papers showing how Higher education institutions have coped with changing the language of instruction. It points out that Higher education institutions have undergone radical change in the past decades; of which the shift to English-medium instruction, as well as bi- or plurilingual programmes, is one notable example. The papers comprise new research on teaching and learning through an additional language, and its impact on professional development for university teachers, programme and course development, as well as quality assurance. The articles span different international contexts, and provide education developers, university teachers, educational administrators, language experts, and others, with global perspectives on the professional practices of university teachers. Following an introduction, "ICLHE, Professional Practice, Disruption, and Quality," from the editors, contents include: (1) Professional development of international classroom lecturers (Karen M. Lauridsen); (2) Purposeful interaction and the professional development of content teachers: Observations of small-group teaching and learning in the international classroom (Kevin Haines); (3) Teachers' perceptions of need in EAP and ICLHE contexts (Maria Ellison, Maria Ellison, Marta Correia, and Fátima Vieira); (4) Teacher perceptions of teaching CLIL courses (Nina Niemelä and Heidi Jauni); (5) I feel traumatized: Teachers' beliefs on the roles of languages and learning in CLIL (Erwin Gierlinger); (6) Researching tertiary EMI and pronunciation. A case study from Vienna (Karin Richter); (7) Crossing borders: The challenges and benefits of a collaborative approach to course development involving content and language specialists in different countries (Linda Weinberg and Miriam Symon); (8) Cooperation and collaboration in undergraduate EMI: Adapting EAP to the emergence of blended academic norms and practices in a Japanese University (Howard Brown); (9) Partial English instruction in English-medium instruction (EMI) practice: Perspectives from lecturers in a University in Indonesia (Nurmala Elmin Simbolon); (10) Differences in content presentation and learning outcomes in English-medium instruction (EMI) vs. Italian-medium instruction (IMI) contexts (Francesca Costa and Cristina Mariotti); (11) Challenges and opportunities of training teachers for plurilingual education (Elena Romero Alfaro and Francisco Zayas Martínez); (12) Programme directors' attitudes towards EMI quality assurance: An exploratory study (Patrick Studer and Curtis Gautschi); and (13) Epilogue -- New perspectives on professional practice in the integration of content and language in higher education (ICLHE) (Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe).

This collection of papers includes the following: "Second Language Acquisition Research in Japan: Theoretical Issues" (Peter Robinson, Mark Sawyer, and Steven Ross); (2) "Focus on Form: Implicit and Explicit Form Focused Instruction Incorporated into a Communicative Task" (Hitoshi Muranoi); (3) "A Task that Works for Negotiation of Meaning" (Terefumi Fubata); (4) "Noticing Output and its Effects on Learner Production" (David Aline); (5) "Implicit and Explicit Instruction of L2 Complex Request Forms" (Satomi Takahashi); (6) "Literacy as an Anchor for the Spoken Language: Evidence from Adult Attriters of L2 Japanese" (Lyne Hansen and Jesse Newbold); (7) "Relationships among Attitudes, Motivation, Anxiety and English Language Proficiency in Japanese College Students" (Amy Yamashiro and John McLaughlin); (8) "Investigating the Role of Aptitude in an EFL Course in Japan" (James Sick and Kay Irie); (9) "The Role of the Language Teacher: Cross Cultural Perspectives" (Stephen M. Ryan and Veronica Makarova); and (10) "Japanese Secondary Students Attaining Oral Proficiency: Interviews with More and Less Proficient Individuals" (Jacqueline Beebe). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

This volume is a collection of selected refereed papers presented at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Spring Conference held at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in March of 2011. It not only covers several important topics on teaching and learning spoken and written Japanese and culture in and beyond classroom settings, but also includes research investigating certain linguistic items from new perspectives. Following a preface, chapters include: (1) Development of Narrative Writing Ability and Language Proficiency in Young JHL Learners in a Japanese Immersion Program (Masako O. Douglas, Kiyomi Chinen, and Hiroko C. Kataoka) [written in Japanese]; (2) Using N Desu in Small Talk: JFL Learners' Pragmatic Development (Tomoko Iwai); (3) Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on JFL Students' Homework (Yuka Akiyama and Mayumi Fleshler); (4) Theories and Practices of Content-Based Language Instruction: Toward "Critical" Japanese Language Education (Shinji Sato, Atsushi Hasegawa, Yuri Kumagai, and Uichi Kamiyoshi) [written in Japanese]; (5) Social Network Development during Study Abroad in Japan (Spencer A. Ring, Daniel Gardner, and Dan P. Dewey); (6) Grammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-topical Subject in Japanese Conversation (Michiko Kaneyasu); (7) A Study of the No-Clause Construction in Japanese: Internally Headed Relative Clauses and Beyond (Xiaoman Miao) [written in Japanese]; and (8) Transmissive Feminism: The Evolutive Mind as Displayed in the Overseas Letters of Yamada Kakichi to Yamada Waka (Rika Saito).

Papers from an international conference on language teaching/learning are presented by topic and grouped under seven sections. An introductory section contains two papers on cultural diversity and world English. The second section, on teacher development, contains papers on these topics: teacher development and socialization; teachers' responses to questions about instruction; characteristics of a good language lesson; teaching students to understand instruction; students' reasons for poor English skills; cross-cultural aspects of the teacher's role; and an instructional materials development workshop. The third section, on classroom techniques and issues, addresses these topics: postsecondary level cooperative learning in Japan; shared inquiry for fostering critical thinking in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction; story grammar as a reading and discussion strategy; use of Japanese literature in reading instruction; multimedia second language reading instruction; vocabulary building; Japanese particle usage; beginning writing instruction; discipline-based technical writing; peer writing evaluation; oral communication instruction; dance as an instructional technique; test revision; and continuous assessment using computer-assisted instruction. In section 4, papers on use of technology in the classroom address: use of the Internet; on-line newspapers and magazines; computerized test and materials development; designing materials t accompany videos; and content video in ESL instruction. Papers on cultural issues in section 5 include these topics: multiculturalism in the classroom; comparing cultures through critical thinking; authority and individualism in Japan and the United States; a study trip to France; setting the stage in kindergarten; comparative social studies; folklore in ESL instruction; Model United Nations; global issues; geography instruction; gender issues; and English variation. The final section contains five papers on the Linguapax Program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Papers are primarily in English, with some Japanese and French included. (MSE)

This collection of articles on gender issues in second language education includes the following: "Colleagues Writing Together: The Evolution of an Edited Publication" (Christine Pearson Casanave, Amy D. Yamashiro); "Reflections on a Critical Approach to Language Teaching" (Alan J. McCornick); "Forging Alliances: Grassroots Feminist Language Education in the Tokyo Area" (Cheiron McMahill, Kate Reekie); "Transforming Teaching: Strategies for Engaging Female Learners" (Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow); "A Socratic Approach to Fostering Gender-Balanced Discussions" (Jerome Young); "Teaching about Social Inequality and Gender in the Language Classroom" (Thomas Hardy); "The Portrayal of Males in Realistic Juvenile Fiction" (Mark Valens); "The 'Parfait Effect': Implications of a Tracking System on Perceptions of Male Adolescent Language Learners" (Yamashiro); "Sexist Language and Teaching English as a Foreign Language" (Jacqueline D. Beebe); Blind to Our Own Language Use? Raising Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Awareness of Future JSL Teachers" (Yoko Tsuruta); and "The Paper Lunch: A Trialogue on Language, Gender, and Lunch" (David Freedman, Yoshiko Takahashi, Hisun Rim). All papers are in English; abstracts are in English and Japanese. (MSE)

This report contains a collection of articles that document the evolution of English for Science and Technology (EST) instruction and research--one of the earliest and most active branches of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Articles included are: (1) "WWW-Based Instruction for EST" (Roy Bowers); (2) "English for Medical Purposes in Mexico: A Bulletin for EMP Practitioners" (Robert M. Chandler-Burns); (3) "Affective Barriers, Schema Theory, and Teaching in a Foreign Language" (Kiel Christianson); (4) "Using Journal Articles to Teach Research Writing" (Garry Dyck); (5) "English Language Development in a University Foundational Programme for Science Students" (Margaret Inglis); (6) "English and Technology as Customers" (Mary Ann Julian); (7) "English Enhancement for Engineering Students: Professional and Technical Communication (Protech)" (Elizabeth Ann Mueller); (8) "Can Multimedia Be Effective in EST?" (Brian Shilhavy); (9) "HUT Email Writing Project: An Ongoing Experiment" (Ruth Vilmi); and (10) "The English for Science Programme at the University of Hong Kong" (Andrew Wright). An international directory of EST programs (preliminary list of 22 programs in 13 nations) and services is appended. (NAV)

The nine papers included in this book are: "The Why, What and How of Educational Reform in Japan" (Roger Goodman); "Why Reform Japanese Education?" (William K. Cummings); "Destruction and Reconstruction: A Comparative Analysis of the Education Reform in Japan and Germany under the U.S. Military Occupation After World War Two" (Masako Shibata); "The Third Great Reform of the Japanese Education System: Success in the 1980s Onwards" (Christopher P. Hood); "Japanese Educational Reform: Developments and Prospects at Primary and Secondary Level" (Peter Cave); "Japanese Nationalism and the Reform of English Language Teaching" (Robert W. Aspinall); "Globalisation and the Recent Reforms in Japanese Higher Education" (Yoko Tsuruta); "Changes in Mathematics Teaching in Japan: Are They Real or Rational?" (Julia Whitburn); and "Postscript. Reflections on British Interest in Education in Japan" (David Phillips). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

This collection of papers shows how intercultural competence can be realized in the classroom. The 17 chapters include the following: (1) "The International Partnership Project" (Carol Morgan); (2) "Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature" (Eva Burwitz-Melzer); (3) "'Up the Hills of Identity'" (Elena Tarasheva and Leah Davcheva); (4) "Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts" (Maria Metodieva Genova); (5) "An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus" (Iskra Georgieva); (6) "'Family Life' and 'Regional Identity'--Comparative Studies While Learning French" (Sylvia Duffy and Janet Mayes); (7) "'It Must Be Cultural because I Don't Do It': Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education" (Mary Williams); (8)"Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students" (Lynne Parmenter and Yuichi Tomita); (9) "Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection" (Sheila Carel); (10) "Working in Tandem: An Anglo-French Project" (Clare Dodd); (11) "New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies" (Paul Whittaker); (12) "Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity" (Jane Woodin); (13) "'Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?'--Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners" (Judith Parsons and Peter Junge); (14) "Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools" (Leon Aktor and Karen Risager); (15) "'I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me'" (Tanya Madjarova, Magdalena Botsmanova, and Tanya Stamatova); (16) "British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students" (Krassimira Topuzova); and (17) "Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others" (Francoise Vigneron). (Papers contain references.) (SM)

This collection of columns on teaching English as a Second Language in Japan appeared on the English education page of a Japanese English-language newspaper over a period of almost 4 years. Article topics include these: principles of second language learning; differences between language skills; standards of usage; avoiding stereotypes; school politics; trends in Japan; the language of language teaching; motivating students; peer evaluation; judging speech contests; textbook selection; avoiding burnout; teaching as job vs. profession; teacher training and qualifications; attending professional conferences; professional isolation; classroom techniques; classroom communication; the teacher's role and the learner's role; large classes; useful class activities and exercises; memorization; grading; working with assistant teachers; team teaching; cultural issues and culture shock; finding a teaching job; and the need for vacations. Each article is accompanied by a summary in Japanese. Five book reviews are also included. (MSE)

This collection of papers leads classroom language teachers through the process of developing and completing a classroom research project. Arranged in four sections, they include: "Language Teaching and Research" (David Nunan); "Where Are We Now? Trends, Teachers, and Classroom Research" (Dale T. Griffee); "First Things First: Writing the Research Proposal" (Martin White, Diane White); "Literature Reviews: Obtaining Perspective" (Paul Riley); "Designing a Language Study" (James Dean Brown); "Methods for the 'Research Challenged'" (Robert Homan, Chris Poel); "Action Research: Something for Everyone" (Greg Hadley); "Students as Ethnographers" (Linda Donan); "Designing Surveys for Language Programs" (Brown); "Bare Minimum Knowledge for Understanding Statistical Research Studies" (Nagata Hiroto); "In-Depth Interviewing as Qualitative Investigation" (Marilyn Books); and "Teachers and Research: An Annotated Bibliography" (Griffee). MSE)

Articles on the use of student journals in high school and college English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, specifically in the Japanese context, include: "Journal Writing and the Damaged Language Learner" (Alan J. McCormick); "Interested?" (Sven G. M. Puetter); "Tradition and the Student Journal" (George Deaux); "Reader-Response Journals" (Peter Silver); "Journal Writing as Communciation: Responding to the Rhythm and Bass" (J. David Simons); "The Role of Teacher Response in High School Journal Writing" (Mary R. Harrison); Journal Writing for Japanese Students: What Do They Write and What Do They Learn?" (Yoshiko Takahashi); "Journal Writing: A Teacher's Reflections" (Rebecca A. Pickett); and "Student Voices: The Insiders Speak Out on Journal Writing" (Christine Pearson Casanave). (Individual papers contain references.) (MSE)

Papers on aspects of second language program evaluation include the following: "The Role of Language Testing in Language Program Evaluation" (Adrian Palmer); "Defining an Appropriate Role for Language Tests in Intensive English Language Programs" (Margaret Des Brisay, Doreen Ready); "Principles and Practice in an Evaluation Project" (Dermot F. Murphy); "National Level Formative Evaluation: Some First Steps" (Ali Abdul Ghani, Brian Hunt); "Second Language Proficiency Assessment and Program Evaluation" (David Nunan); "How Program Personnel Can Help Maximize the Utility of Language Program Evaluations" (Ronald Mackay); "The Development of Self Assessment Skills in TESOL Teacher Preparation" (Alastair L. McGregor); "Bringing Evaluation and Methodology Closer Together" (David Crabbe);"Evaluating a Teacher Training Project in Difficult Circumstances" (C. J. Weir, J. Roberts); "Program Evaluation in Light of Language Learning Background, Student Assessments, and TOEFL Performance" (Harry L. Gradman, Edith Hanania); "Towards Evaluating the Writing Laboratory: A Prototype" (Ma Flor E. Mejorada, Elvira Fonacier); "Trialling of the NEW EL Syllabuses for Singapore Schools" (Goh Soon Guan); and "EAP Program Evaluation in an Asian Context: A Case from Japan" (Mark Sawyer). (MSE)

This volume is a collection of papers focused on a single theme, cooperative learning, written by classroom teachers of varying experience levels. This book introduces cooperative learning and gives examples of cooperative learning activities, units, and systems created by teachers in Japan, The United States, and Canada, who are currently using these methods. Cooperative learning is a group learning activity organized so that learning is dependent on the socially structured exchange of information between learners in groups, and in which each learner is held accountable for his or her own learning and is motivated to increase the learning of others. The book is divided into sections highlighting systems, units, and activities. Systems, the largest form of cooperative learning, describes an entire way of presenting any language item or content. These systems are independent of any content and can be used to teach anything. Units are an example of extended cooperative learning activity or sets of activities with a single theme or goal that stretch over several classes, a semester, or a whole year. Activities are short cooperative learning bits that can be as short as ten minutes or cover a complete class period. The book ends with a section on evaluation. An instant index is included which presents key words for topic, institutional level, skills practiced, an abstract, and author contact information for each of the 14 chapters of text. An annotated bibliography is appended, covering books, commercial and non-profit organizations, newsletters, and web resources. Topics include: cooperative learning in Japan; implementing cooperative learning in language learning setting; an EFL-NGO forum integrating cooperative learning and global issues; developing oral fluency and interactive group skills through cooperative learning techniques; generating ideas cooperatively in a writing class; cooperative learning and assessment and evaluation. (KFT)

The collection of papers on the teaching of English as a second language includes: "Teaching English in Japan"; "Reading and Evaluating Quantitative Research"; "Transformational Generative Grammar and Language Teaching"; "Process and Social Aspects of Writing: Theory and Classroom Application"; "Contrastive Analysis Between English Diphthongs...and Similar Vowel Combinations in Japanese"; "Difficulty in English Pronunciation for Japanese People"; "Difficulties Japanese Have in Reading English"; "Japanese College Students' English Reading Ability"; "A Study of Trends of College English Reading Textbooks in Japan: An Analysis of College English Reading Textbooks for 1985"; "Independent Reading in English--Use of Graded Readers in the Library English as a Second Language Corner";"Getting Students To Read Actively"; "Teaching English Through Newspapers"; "Teaching Culture in Foreign Language Instruction in the United States"; "Teaching American Culture: Content, Methods, and Techniques"; "Development of Thought About Teaching Culture in Japan in the 1960s and Early 1970s"; "Developing Reading Materials for Teaching American Culture in English Courses"; "Administration of Language Laboratories in Colleges"; "The History of Language Laboratories--Origin and Establishment"; "Motivating Students To Learn English by Combining Slide Presentations with Reading and Listening"; "Using Authentic Video Materials in the Language Classroom"; "Introduction to CAI English Classes"; "Developing English CBI Programs at Doshisha University"; "Effects of English CBI at Doshisha University"; "Individualizing English Instruction Using Computers"; "Students' Evaluation of CAI English Classes"; and "Organizing a CAI Contest." (MSE)

The collection of essays on teachers as course developers is designed to help teachers understand how to develop courses or modify existing ones using their own experience and the experiences and theories of others. It attempts to capture this process through the stories of six teachers who have developed courses. Each narrative focuses on a specific aspect of course development. Articles include: "Teachers as Course Developers" (Kathleen Graves); "A Framework of Course Development Processes" (Kathleen Graves); "Designing Workplace ESOL Courses for Chinese Health-Care Workers at a Boston Nursing Home" (Johan Uvin); "Designing a Seventh-Grade Social Studies Course for ESL Students at an International School" (Pat Fisher); "Designing an EAP Course for Postgraduate Students in Ecuador" (Maria del Carmen Blyth); "Designing a Writing Component for Teen Courses at a Brazilian Language Institute" (Maria Estela Pinheiro Franco); "Planning an Advanced Listening Comprehension Elective for Japanese College Students" (Barbara Fujiwara); and "A Curriculum Framework for Corporate Language Programs" (Laura Hull). A list of further readings is included and contents are indexed. (MSE)