ELT in Japan (ELT-J)

We are only a month away from ending 2010 and beginning the new year. So we thought it would be good to review some of the ELT-related content we have published here this year so far. http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaching-english-r-and-l-to-asian-efl.html Teaching English /r/ and /l/ to Asian EFL learners: a lexical approach Part I http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/11/basics-of-vocabulary-study-in-toeic.html Basics of Vocabulary Study in TOEIC Practice Class http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/09/should-jet-programme-be-axed.html Should the JET Programme be axed? http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/08/elt-in-japan-issue-4-august-2010.html Japanese publishers of EFL books for self-study/ 自習のための言語・英語材料の出版社 http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/08/elt-in-japan-issue-3-august-2010.html Schema theory: Is this set of concepts relevant to TEFL? (revised, updated) http://eltinjapan.blogspot.com/2010/06/brief-discussion-about-class-size-for.html What is the best cla...

ELT-J Issue #2 (March 2010) I. Folder of three .pdfs that can be viewed as GoogleDocs or downloaded as .pdf II. As separate articles: A. Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests B. Semantic Mapping Activities for the Speaking Class C. Semantic Mapping Activities for the Writing Class

ELT in Japan Issue 2 (March 2010) Contents (1)  Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests (2)  Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class (3)  Semantic mapping activities for the writing class --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests Charles Jannuzi, University of Fukui, Japan Introduction Chances are that, if you teach EFL at a tertiary level in Japan (and other parts of developed E. Asia), your students are most familiar with relatively 'conservative' types of assessment tasks. The orientation of the teaching, the classroom, and the students is to take a given stretch of L2 (English) and asked to deal with it in terms of what it could mean if re-encoded into the L1 (standard forms of Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, etc.). This orientation even plays out in language test...

1. Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests. pdf 2. Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class.pdf

ELT - J Issue #2 Preview Article: Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests Issue 2 of ELT in Japan will consist of four articles: (1)  "Teaching English [l] sounds vs. [r] sounds: Integrating applied phonology into the EFL classroom"; (2) "Devising multiple-choice questions, quizzes and tests"; (3) "Semantic mapping activities for the speaking class"; and (4)"Semantic mapping activities for the writing class".  Here are two of those articles available for download in a special preview of ELT-J Issue #2, which will be published in full by the end of this month (Feb. 2010). Click on the links below to view the articles at GoogleDocs. You can download them from there as well, in .pdf .     1. Devising Multiple-choice Questions, Quizzes and Tests https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B2aIR7UspFzpMDMxYTVkNmMtYzdlMS00ZmZlLWJjOTEtYTU5M2IyMmJmNTlk&hl=en introductory excerpt: In this article we will look at how to in...