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The
Exploratory Learning and Teaching Newsletter of
Dokkyo University ・ Winter 2007 ・ No. 10  |
Welcome
to Languaging! No. 10!
Please note that archived issues are now available online also as PDF files. Future issues will no longer be made available in HTML format. Feel free to print the entire issue or refer to the Table of Contents and print only the page numbers of articles of interest. Let us know if you have any questions.
Please note that archived issues are now available online also as PDF files. Future issues will no longer be made available in HTML format. Feel free to print the entire issue or refer to the Table of Contents and print only the page numbers of articles of interest. Let us know if you have any questions.
| Student Features | ||
| Good Teachers, Bad Teachers The Elementary English Education Debate |
Ami Ouchi Yuko Iwasaki |
3 5 |
| Focus on Teaching | ||
| Go Observe and
Accept Observers! Influencing Student Attitudes Scaffolding More Human Interaction Reading Minority Literature |
Risa Aoki Robert Palka Christopher Carpenter Tomoko Ichitani |
7 10 13 15 |
| Community of Practice | ||
| JALT2007: “Going” vs.
“Being Part of” |
Naoki Yamaura |
20 |
| Critical Perspectives | ||
| A Plea for Democracy in
Education Guess What? Students Do Care! The Wisdom of Crowds and ELT |
Akiko Kiuchi Stephen Christie with students Tim Murphey |
22 25 29 |
| Research Pathways | ||
| Confidence and Anxiety in
Speaking The Kind of English Students Want Yoji Jukugo: Message in Four Characters |
Sarah Osboe, Tomoko Fujimura, Rob Hirschel Tetsuya Fukuda Jeroen Bode |
32 36 39 |
| Global Interaction | ||
| Students as Researchers Nepal: Education for All by 2015 Get Involved! How to Start Volunteering |
Masayasu Sakaguchi Koko Kato,Tim Murphey Naoki Sekimoto |
43 46 49 |
- Bonus! To download a PDF of the "Student Volunteering Opportunities" booklet edited by Dokkyo University students, click here.
| Also in this issue ... | |
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The Chatroom
Readers Forum Website Recommendations Brown Bag Tuesdays Photocopiable Activity Page (Click to download PDF) The Efficiency Column |
12 24 31 38 51 52 |
BONUS! To download a PDF of the
"Student Volunteering Opportunities" booklet
edited by Dokkyo University students, click here.
Welcome
to Languaging! No. 10!
The biggest issue EVER!
The biggest issue EVER!
Yes, this is it, Languaging! No. 10, and at 52 pages, the biggest issue ever! At five years running, we are happy to present to you yet another collection of writings and ideas from our own community of teachers, learners, and readers. Once again we have a nice assortment of topics from a wide range of writers, including students, undergrad and graduate, teachers, faculty and adjunct, from Dokkyo University as well as guests from other institutions as far away as Brazil. We welcome and thank them all for enriching our community with their words.
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We would like to thank our many guest editors, Tetsuya Fukuda, Yuko Iwasaki, Takeshi
Kikuchi and Jerry Waldman,
for all of their help. Also we were happy to again welcome
contributions from our sister community at the University of Tsukuba.
Our special Ibaraki editor, Markus
Rude,
once again solicited valuable additions to this issue from his
colleagues. We are happy and proud to learn that Tsukuba will soon be
starting their own access publication based on the Languaging! model, with the first
issue to be launched in June 2008. Happy reading and have a splendid New Year!
The editors of Languaging! No. 10
Christopher Carpenter
Stephen Christie
Tim Murphey
Markus Rude
Stephen Christie
Tim Murphey
Markus Rude
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This issue is dedicated to our
coeditor, colleague and friend, the founder of this newsletter, Tim Murphey.
He will be leaving our immediate community next year, but we know
wherever he goes he will continue to inspire people, students and
teachers alike, with his energy, ideas, and passion. Like the Christmas
Butterfly on the cover (don’t you know?), Tim helps people find their
wings, and, as he is fond of saying, Be the Change
You wish to see in the World!
You wish to see in the World!
Best of luck, Tim, and thanks for everything!
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Share your learning and teaching
explorations!Languaging! is a place to experiment, not just write about experiments.
Think about your favorite ways of teaching and learning – fun ways to learn that could help others. Think about the data you might collect and share in our informal newsletter: keeping a journal, recording your changing feelings and ideas, having friends observe your classes, visiting friends’ classes, getting feedback from students on your classes, your materials, or the whole education system! Read a good book? Write about it. Have a good idea? Write about it. Had a good conversation? Write about it!
Get your ideas out in Languaging! Ask your students to submit their ideas, too!
Send submissions for Languaging! No. 11 by May 15th to the editors at
languaging @yahoo.com
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Ye Olde Standard DisclaimerThe opinions and views expressed in Languaging! do not necessarily reflect those of the editors nor of Dokkyo University (and maybe not even of the authors - after all people change their minds all the time!). Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy!
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