Volume 7 Issue 2
In the Case of L2 Learning -v-Legal Awareness & Responsibility
The TEFL profession affects over a billion people worldwide with Asia being the focus. Unlike other professional areas of study, TEFL does not have a controlling body. L2 teaching and learning is based on the premise that anyone can teach and publish anything and carry neither responsibility nor legal liability.
English in the Work Place. An Analysis of the Communication Needs of Tourism and Banking Personnel
This paper is an exploratory study of the use of English by tourism and banking personnel. It attempts to examine the communication needs of the personnel in the workplace by shedding light on their perceptions of needs, wants and lacks. Also it attempts to explore the workers’ attitudes toward English and the use of English in the workplace.
Reframing English Language Education in Japan
This article explores how English Education in Japan should be planned and performed from the sociocultural perspective and is based on the belief that mediation plays a significant role for human development and learning.
Putting Students’ Differences in Perspectives: An Introduction to the Individual Developing Model
The individualized program aims to teach according to students’ needs and abilities. However, the notion that aims to create one lesson plan for each student causes drawbacks from teachers. In the generalized curriculum system, teachers often struggle in deciding when and where to treat students as special individuals.
The Native Speaker: An Achievable Model?
In this more mobile and globalized world, the concept of what it means to be a native speaker of a language is becoming ever more difficult to define, especially in regards to English. In recent developments in second language acquisition and language teaching, this concept has been the focus of attention for numerous scholars…
Test Analysis of College Students’ Communicative Competence in English
While College English Tests (CET) in China have promoted college English teaching, they have also led to test-oriented teaching in colleges and hindered the development of students’ communicative competence. To examine the validity of CET-4, experimental tests were carried out to the sampled students one year after they took CET-4 in December, 2002.
Frequency Effects on Japanese EFL Learners’ Perception of Morphologically Complex Words
Looking back over the history of the theory of generative linguistics, we notice that the structure of the lexicon or the lexical component of the grammar, which was once considered mere storage filled with unpredictable information, has drawn a number of researchers’ attention since early 1970s.
A Validation Study on the English language test in a Japanese Nationwide University Entrance Examination
The present study employs validation study on the English language test of the Japanese nationwide university entrance examination- the Joint First Achievement Test (JFSAT). Two studies are presented. The first examines the reliability and concurrent validity of the JFSAT-English test.
Teaching Korean University Writing Class: Balancing the Process and the Genre Approach
This paper comes out of concerns about teaching English writing to Korean university students. This study points out four problems in university writing classes: first, a heavy emphasis on grammatical form; second, overemphasis on final product; third, lack of genre-specific writing across the curriculum; and fourth, the need for more diverse types of feedback.
A Mutual Learning Experience: Collaborative Journaling between A Nonnative-Speaker Intern and Native- Speaker Cooperating-Teacher
Teaching journals have been used in the TESOL field for both preservice and inservice teachers to promote reflection and awareness and to explore their teaching beliefs and practices. Although the various benefits of teaching journals have been reported on previously, the use of collaborative teaching journals has not received much research attention in the field.
