The Language Teacher http://jalt-publications.org/tlt Feature Articles TLT Interviews Facebook vs. Paper-and-Pencil Writing: An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Sclafani 3 19 Comparing Japanese EFL Students’ Daniel Dunkley Opinions of the Writing Mediums Gilbert Dizon My Share The Learning of Congruent and 9 Incongruent Collocations Utilizing Classroom ideas from Steve Hampshire, 24 Dynamic Assessment Eric Hirata, and James Bury Mohammad R. Hashemi & Raziye Eskandari JALT Praxis TLT Wired Readers’ Forum 27 Young Learners Teaching English Through English: An 30 15 Book Reviews Analysis of a Sample of Japanese and 33 Recently Received South Korean Textbooks 35 Diane Johnson, Keiko Umeda, Teaching Assistance 36 & Kyoungja Oh The Writers’ Workshop 38 SIG Focus 41 Old Grammarians 45 The Japan Association for Language Teaching Volume 41, Number 6 • November / December 2017 ISSN 0289-7938 • ¥1,900 • TLT uses recycled paper JALT Publications JALT Publications Board Chair } OLD GRAMMARIANS Deryn Verity – Penn State University Scott Gardner York Weatherford – Kyoto Notre Dame Jerry Talandis Jr. [email protected] University [email protected] Asako Yoshitomi – Tokyo University of JALT Focus Editors Foreign Studies } SIG FOCUS TLT Editorial Staff } ADDITIONAL READERS Joël Laurier & Robert Morel Dale Brown, John Eidswick, Frank Daulton, } TLT EDITORS [email protected] Danielle Fischer, Patrick Foss, Naomi Fujishima, Philip Head } JALT NOTICES EDITOR Austin Gardner, James Hobbs, Brandon Kramer, Gerry McLellan Malcolm Swanson Aleda Krause, Paul Lyddon, Donald Patterson, [email protected] Greg Rouault, Troy Rubesch, Vick Sssali, Tim [email protected] Stewart, Toshiko Sugino, Bernie Susser, Jerry } TLT ADVISOR Talandis Jr., Katherine Thornton, Blake Turnbull, John Roberts Production Chris Wharton, Jennifer Yphantides } TLT ASSISTANT EDITOR } Caroline Handley COPYEDITORS & PROOFREADERS JALT Journal } TLT JAPANESE-LANGUAGE EDITOR Brian Birdsell, Stephen Case, 杉野 俊子 (Toshiko Sugino) Antonija Cavcic, David Cooke, } JALT JOURNAL EDITOR [email protected] Jeremy Eades, Chris Edelman, Peter Anne McLellan Howard } TLT JAPANESE-LANGUAGE ASSOC. 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Isozaki, [email protected] Tim Murphey – Kanda University of International Studies Wayne Arnold, Chris Fitzgerald } THE WRITERS’ WORKSHOP Yoko Okayama – Bunkyo University Charles Moore & Vikki Williams Jonathan Picken – Tsuda College [email protected] Martha Robertson – Aichi University JALT Central Office Stephen Ryan – Sanyo Gakuen University } DEAR TLT Urban Edge Bldg. 5F, 1-37-9 Taito, Lorraine Sorrell – Macquarie University Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0016 Tiernan L. Tensai Toshiyuki Takagaki – Onomichi University [email protected] Dax Thomas – Meiji Gakuin University t: 03-3837-1630; f: 03-3837-1631 [email protected] THE LANGUAGE TEACHER Online • http://jalt-publications.org/tlt NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2017 • Vol. 41, No.6 Contents In this month’s issue . Feature Articles } Facebook vs. Paper-and-Pencil Writing: ello, and let me be the first to welcome you to the final Comparing Japanese EFL Students’ Opinions of the Writing Mediums ...3 edition of The Language Teacher for 2017. We are now well into autumn and the 43rd JALT International } The Learning of Congruent and Incon- Conference in Tsukuba is fast approaching. I am sure it will be gruent Collocations Utilizing Dynamic H Assessment ......................9 as successful as all previous ones. I hope everyone managed to secure reservations for this event of the year! Readers’ Forum This time of year sees many changes in nature. The au- } Teaching English Through English: An tumn leaves give us one final moment of brilliance before Analysis of a Sample of Japanese and dropping to and carpeting the earth in a blaze of colour. Soon South Korean Textbooks ............15 we will also ring in the changes at New Year as 2017 makes way for 2018. TLT Interviews Here at JALT we are also experiencing some major chang- es. Sadly for me, I have to say goodbye to Philip Head. We } An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Sclafani ..........................19 worked together as coeditors of the My Share section before becoming coeditors of TLT. Phil will now work as TLT Ad- visor. His slot will be filled by Eric Martin whom I certainly JALT Praxis look forward to working with over the coming months. } Off the Presses ..................23 In this final issue of 2017 we begin with two Feature } My Share .......................24 Articles. Gilbert Dizon starts with an article on Facebook } TLT Wired ......................27 versus paper-and-pencil writing. Gilbert compares Japanese } Young Learners ..................30 students’ opinions of the two mediums. This is followed by } Book Reviews ...................33 Mohammad R. Hashemi and Raziye Eskandari’s interesting article on learning congruent and incongruent collocations } Recently Received ...............35 through utilising dynamic assessment. } Teaching Assistance ..............36 In the Readers’ Forum section of this issue, Diane Johnson, } The Writers’ Workshop ...........38 Keiko Umeda, and Kyoungja Oh provide a brief analysis of } SIG Focus ......................41 samples of Japanese and South Korean textbooks. } JALT Focus .....................42 It might be a tad early, but also let me be the first to wish } Old Grammarians ................45 everyone a fantastic Christmas and New Year when it arrives. I look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing Other them in print in 2018. I hope you all have a safe, healthy, and } JALT Membership Information .....44 peaceful year! Gerry McLellan, TLT Coeditor JALT Publications Online Continued over http://jalt-publications.org November/December 2017 online access Material from all our publications produced in the last 6 months requires a password for access. These passwords change with each issue of TLT and are valid for a 3-month peri- od. To access our archives: [ login: nov2017 / password: fw8uMUkJ] TLT Editors: Philip Head, Gerry McLellan TLT Japanese-Language Editor: Toshiko Sugino THE LANGUAGE TEACHER 41.6 • November / December 2017 1 The Language Teacher • Foreword & JALT Information んにちは。読者の皆様、TLT2017年最終号によう The Japan Association for Language こそ。秋も深まり、筑波で開催される第43回JALT Teaching (JALT) こ 年次大会がすぐにやってきます。これまでの大会 同様、今回の大会も成功裏に終わること間違いありませ A nonprofit organization ん。皆様におかれましては、今年度のこの大会に万障繰り The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) is a 合わせの上お越し頂ければと思います。 nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the im- この時期、自然界では多くの変化が見られます。紅葉 provement of language teaching and learning in Japan. It が落ち、燃え立つような色彩で地面に敷き詰められる前 provides a forum for the exchange of new ideas and tech- の輝かしい瞬間を見せてくれます。2017年が2018年に変 niques and a means of keeping informed about develop- わろうとする中で、まもなく我々も鐘を鳴らして新年の変 ments in the rapidly changing field of second and foreign 化を迎えることになるでしょう。 language education. ここJALTでも、いくつか変わることがあります。大変残 JALT Board of Directors, 2016-2017 念ながら、TLT EditorのPhilip