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ELT in Japan (ELT-J) Practitioner Publication Online Archive (2009 - 2026)

 

There have been eight issues of ELT-J published online here at this blog. The first three issues exist only as .html right now, but issues 4-8 are available as PDFs at Google Drive. 

Issue 1 (links you to a page from which you can navigate to all the article)

The articles of Issue 1 as individual online articles:

1.  Ten Reasons Why English Learning in Japan Fails

3.  Native Writing Systems: Positive Transfer or Interference for EFL Learning?

5.  The Facially Salient Articulatory Gesture as a Basic Unit for Applied Phonology in ELT


Issue 2 (links you to page that contains all the articles of Issue 2 as .html)

Issue 3 (links you to a page from which you can navigate to all the articles)

Issue 4 (links you to a PDF of the entire publication, which you can download)

Issue 5 (links you to a PDF of the entire publication, which you can download)

Issue 6 (links you to a PDF of the entire publication, which you can download)

Issue 7 (links you to a PDF of the entire publication, which you can download)

Issue 8 (links you to a PDF of the entire publication, which you can download)

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