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CONTENTS appy New Year! Welcome to our first Feature Articles double issue. With this switch to a bi-monthly publication schedule, } The Socratic trap: A strategic snare that EFL H teachers should sidestep. .9 we really hope to contribute more } University accreditation in Japan: Problems and effectively to your teaching this possibilities for reforming EFL education. .15 year. In the Feature articles, Mark de Readers’ Forum Boer explains why Socratic type } Considerations for activity and task selection questions are not ideal for EFL in Japanese elementary school English classrooms, and Bern Mulvey communication lessons. .25 describes the accreditation evalu- } Using Photo News materials in the EFL ation system in Japanese universi- classroom . 30 ties. In Readers’ Forum, Richard } Talking about Privilege with artist Gary J. Sampson investigates activity and McLeod. 37 task selection in Japanese elementary school English communication lessons, Thomas Resources Amundrud interviews English teacher and photog- } My Share. .43 rapher Gary McLeod, and Ken Schmidt describes ways for using Photo News in class. In My Share, } Book Reviews . .46 Mark Rebuck introduces an activity for learning to } Recently Received . 48 express annoyance, while Sylvan Payne shows how } TLT Wired. 49 students can create animated dialogs online. JALT Focus Continued over } JALT Notices. 51 IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL TLT } Member’s Profile . .53 READERS — See page 6 } Grassroots. 55 Columns JALT PUBLICATIONS ONLINE } SIG News . 58 <www.jalt-publications.org> } Chapter Events. .62 January/February 2010 online access } Chapter Reports. 63 Material from all our publications produced in the last 12 } Job Information . 68 months requires a password for access. These pass- } Conference Calendar. 69 words change with each issue of TLT and are valid for a } Old Grammarians. .71 3-month period. To access our archives: } Membership Information. inside back [ login: jan2010 / password: Ue07hr ] } Online Access Info. .1 } JALT Info. 2 } Submissions Guidelines. 2 } Advertiser Index. .2 TLT Coeditors: Jerry Talandis Jr. & Damian Rivers TLT Japanese-Language Editor: Mihoko Inamori THE LANGUAGE TEACHER: 34.1 • January / February 2010 1 The Language Teacher » Foreword & Information Although it is still cold, spring will come soon. まだ寒い日が続きますが、春はもうすぐです。春休みが やってきて、桜の花が咲きます。風に乗って、暖かい（佳 Spring break and cherry blossoms are not too far き）日がやってくるのを待ちましょう。今年も実り多き年と away. Let’s have another prosperous year together! なりますように！本年もTLTをどうぞ宜しくお願いします。 Mihoko Inamori, TLT Japanese-language Editor 日本語版編集長 稲森 美穂子 年明けましておめでとうございます。TLTでは今 年も様々な記事をご用意し、皆様のお役に立ち 新 たいと切に願っています。 Featureでは、Mark de Boerがソクラテスの問答法はEFL Submitting material to クラスには適さないかも知れないと説明し、Bern Mulvey は日本の大学の認証評価制度について詳述していま The}Language}Teacher す。Readers’ Forum では、Richard J. Sampsonが小学校英 語活動においてアクティビティを選択する際に意識すべき Guidelines ことに言及し、Thomas Amundrudは英語教師で写真家で あるGary McLeodにインタビューをして、Ken Schmidtは写 The editors welcome submissions of materials 真ニュースのクラスでの使用方法について取り上げていま concerned with all aspects of language educa- す。 tion, particularly with relevance to Japan. As My Shareでは、Mark Rebuck が “Getting it off your well as for feature articles, reader’s forum chest” を Sylvan Payne が “Creating student dialog articles, interviews, and conference reports, animations” をそれぞれ紹介しています。 we also need material for our many columns. Submitting online Japan Association for To submit articles online, please visit: Language Teaching (JALT) <www.jalt-publications.org/access> A nonprofit organization From there, you can register an account, then submit your articles through our produc- The Japan Association for Language Teaching tion site. After creating your account, please (JALT) is a nonprofit professional organization be sure to check the About page for further dedicated to the improvement of language submission guidelines. teaching and learning in Japan. It provides a Information about submitting to our regular forum for the exchange of new ideas and tech- columns is available through the Section niques and a means of keeping informed about Policies and Online Submissions links, as well developments in the rapidly changing field of as within the columns in this issue of TLT. second and foreign language education To contact the editors, please use the contact JALT National Officers, 2009 form on our website, or through the email President: . Caroline Lloyd addresses listed in this issue of TLT. Vice President:. Cynthia Keith <www.jalt-publications.org/contacts> Auditor:. Tadashi Ishida Director of Treasury: . Kevin Cleary Advertiser Index Director of Records. Aleda Krause Director of Programs. Philip McCasland Language Note. 35 Director of Membership:. Nathan Furuya ABAX. 52 Director of Public Relations:. 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