ELT in Japan (ELT-J)

https://text.asahipress.com/english/detail.php?id=1490 自己表現のためのコア英語 Core English for Global Communication Charles Jannuzi /菅野雅代 マルチ・アプローチによって、使える英語を身につける！ 学習者が自ら考え、表現するアクティブラーニングに最適。TOEICやTOEFL、 英検などの試験に頻出の語彙を使ってアメリカと日本を比較しながら学ぶ。 大学の授業の中で試行錯誤を重ねながら作成された、幅広いレベルのクラスで 使用可能な学習者重視のテキスト。

The new issue of ELT in Japan  can be viewed at this link. You can preview and read the issue in PDF at this link and then download it (click on the download arrow icon in the upper right corner of the preview window). You will need a program that can read Adobe PDFs, such as Acrobat Reader or MS Edge Browser.  ELT-J October 2017 click here    ELT-J October 2017 click here

After a 5 year hiatus (to work on textbooks), we will be publishing a new issue of  ELT-J. The two articles in this October 2017 issue are previewed below. Links for a download of the issue as a PDF will follow. A Review of L2 Student Motivation Robert Dykes University of Fukui (Fukui, Japan) Abstract Motivation in the contexts of SL, FL and L2 learning has been researched and analyzed since the 1950s.  (Gardner, 2006). It has been concluded through research that aptitude alone is not enough to succeed in the L2 classroom (Gardner, 1985). Dornyei (1998) maintains that alongside aptitude, motivation is a key factor in language acquisition success. The amount of material completed on motivation within the L2 context since the 1950s is far too extensive to cover in an essay of this size and cope, so it will instead briefly cover some of the key and influential explanations of motivation, focusing mostly on the work of Gardner, Dornyei, and some key developments stemming from these