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INTERVIEWS
1. David Nunan
2. Thom Simmons
3. Mario Rinvolucri
4. Steven Gershon
5. Peter Viney
6. Christina Gitsaki & Richard Taylor
7. Alan Maley
8. Marc Helgesen
9. Kumiko Torikai
10. Liz & John Soars
11. Kensaku Yoshida
12. Michael Swan & Catherine Walter
13. Tom Kenny
14. Bruce Rogers
15. Rod Ellis
16. Helene Uchida
17. Rob Waring
18. Tom Merner
19. Paul Riley
20. Setsuko Toyama
21. Jared Bernstein
22. Michael Naishtut
23. Roger Barnard
24. Chuck Sandy
25. Shane Lipscombe
26. Caroline Pover
27. Della Summers
28. David Crystal
29. David Paul
30. Steven Molinsky
31. Bert McBean
32. Michael Rost
33. Vaughan Jones
34. Ronald Carter
35. Richard Day & Junko Yamanaka
36. Michael McCarthy
37. Beatrice Mikulecky
38. Patrick Jackson
39. Ken Beatty
40. Jennifer Bassett
41. Henry Widdowson

A DAY IN THE LIFE
1. Mark McBennett - HS Teacher/Editor
2. Tom Anderson - University Teacher
3. Ben Shearon - BOE Educational Advisor
4. Floyd Kermode - EFL Teacher
5. John Spiri - Teacher/Writer
6. Jim Forsyth - Study Abroad Co-ordinator/School Owner

TEACHING IDEAS
1. Information Gaps
2. Learning and Acquiring Language
3. Promoting Oral Fluency via Group & Pair Work
4. The Real World in the Classroom
5. Using Video in the Classroom
6. Student Goals
7. Tricks o' the Trade
8. Using Students' Native Language in Class
9. Teaching Beginners
10. Slipping Pronunciation into the Regular Class
11. The Talk-box: A Five Minute EFL Activity to Promote Genuine L2 Conversations
12. A Surprise Box: A Resource that Engages the Young L2 Learner
13. Exploring 'Yes/No'-questions: A Task for Teaching Alternative Responses
14. Reading Strategies for the TOEIC® Test

FUN ENGLISH
1. How To Speak English More Better
2. Weird English Signs
3. Gramesis. In the beginning...
4. Hu's On First
5. Banished!
6. Real Newspaper Headlines
7. Corny Jokes
8. What's a Meta For? (Simile when you say that)
9. Pronunciation Poem
10. Signs That Tickle
11. History Lesson
12. Expansioning the Language
13. Flying...or Frying...Potatoes!
14. Just for the fun of it
15. Thinkers Anonymous
16. Tenjewberrymuds

SPECIAL
1. Budget Cuts in Japan ODA Hurts Overseas Students
2. Japan's Universities and the Current Climate for Reform
3. Don't Touch the Potatoes
4. Travelers' Tales - Colombian Escapades
5. Travelers' Tales - Ten Weeks in South Korea
6. Travelers' Tales - Can You Prove You're American?
7. Trends in Higher Education in Asia
8. Travelers' Tales - Greek Tragedy (Almost)
9. A Family Affair
10. Making the Most of AETs
11. English in the Japanese Elementary Classroom
12. Learners Need 'Natives' to Guide not Dictate
13. Moore's First Errand
14. A Dictionary for Today's Young Learners of English
15. A Look at Professionalism in Private Language Schools in Japan
16. John Pereira, The Self Interview
17. Piracy Fails to Damp Hopes for China
18. What's Small about Small Talk?
19. Who is Noam Chomsky?
20. Personal bonds key in 'Amy and Ken'
21. What Does Teaching Children EFL/ESL Mean?
22. Japanese Committee Meetings for Dummies
23. In Defense of Eikaiwa
24. Travelers' Tales - Vietnam
25. Selecting ELT Materials
26. The Forums About Teaching English in Japan Need to Take a Reality Check
27. Forums About Teaching English in Japan - A Rebuttal
28. The Teacher as Facilitator: Reducing anxiety in the EFL university classroom
29. A Tale of Two Books: Looking back on twenty years of communicative language teaching
30. Books That Have Influenced Me
31. Extensive Reading; Why do it, how to do it, how not to do it
32. Foreign Language Teaching at Japanese Universities: Some Trends and Concerns for the 21st Century
33. The Extensive Reading Foundation 2005 Language Learner Literature Award Winners
34. Marking Students' Writing - A Considered Approach
35. The Use of Computer-assisted Language Learning for Literacy Development

THINK TANK
1. What are good strategies or techniques for developing rapport with a new class?
2. When and how should I correct my students?
3. To what extent should I use the students' native language in class?
4. Is it worth giving my students English homework during their school holidays?
5. What warm-up exercises would you recommend for a new class?
6. How do I decide on a textbook for a new class?
7. What are ways to introduce pronunciation exercises in lessons?
8. How should teachers incorporate vocabulary teaching into their classes?
9. To what extent should learners be given choices when they engage in classroom activities?
10. How do I get the most out of teaching conferences?
11. What are some ways to increase language input inside and outside the classroom?
12. What are some ways to increase language output inside and outside the classroom?
13. How can I make the best use of my textbook?
14. Peer Observation
15. What are some strange activities that have worked for you in class?
16. What role does imagination play in language learning?
17. What kind of tools do I need to allow flexibility and spontaneity in my classes?
18. Were there any crucial events or people in the development of you as a teacher? Any heroes or bums?
19. How can we empower and motivate students?
20. What role can collaboration and project work play in language classes?
21. How can I encourage my students to use higher level thinking skills?
22. How are you going to change your teaching this year?
23. What role does reading play in the language learning process?
24. How can we use songs in the language classroom?
25. What role do the senses play in language learning?
26. How can we use poetry in the language classroom?
27. How important is grading and testing?
28. What are some proverbs that you live and teach by?
29. Why must we teach adults differently?
30. What ever happened to video in the classroom?
31. Who do your students see?
32. Do we need democracy in the classroom?
33. A Day in the Life of the ELT News Think Tank
34. What can be achieved through English camps/intensive courses?
35. Copyright - The Right to Copy?
36. 5 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Teaching
37. 5 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Teaching (Part II)
38. Should We Bring "Real World" Tragedy into the Classroom?
39. What ELT books influenced you most as a teacher?
40. Should a teacher bring his or her politics and religion into the classroom?
41. How does one set up a reading class, especially in situations where extensive reading is not an option?
42. Can we teach our students to be happy?
43. Do women learn differently? - A conversation
44. Think Tank Live 2005 - Preview
45. Sharing Our Stories
46. What was the best idea you had in the last year?

KIDS WORLD
1. Planning a Lesson for Children
2. Memory-Friendly Teaching
3. New Beginnings
4. Communicative Grammar for Kids
5. Monbusho & English: Vision & Reality
6. Making Your Classroom a Window to the World
7. 12 Teaching Tips for Teachers of Children
8. Teaching Children: Some FAQ's
9. Strategies for Effective Classroom Rules
10. The Questioning Approach
11. The Student Baby
12. Taking Attendance
13. Using Readers in Children's Classes
14. Monbusho & English: Six Months On...
15. Encouraging Classroom Language Use
16. The Four F's
17. Teaching Children
18. Is Something Missing?
19. How Are Your Students Smart?
20. A Friendly Classroom
21. Teacher Presence
22. Power, Purpose, Promise
23. Four Helpful Hints
24. Can My Child Really Speak English?
25. Behaviour as a Process of Becoming
26. Your Students are Your Best Teachers
27. He Kissed Me!
28. Classroom Atmosphere
29. Student Recognition
30. Valentine's Day
31. Playing Games in English
32. Music in the English Classroom
33. Time in the Classroom
34. Free Study Workbooks as Vehicles for Individual Differences
35. Discipline
36. Preschool Learning Stages
37. Body Language
38. Writing to Your Students
39. "Sempai-kohai" Relationships
40. Success is Like a Vitamin
41. Good Manners in the English Classroom
42. Floating in the English Swimming Pool
43. English Talent Shows
44. A Teacher is a Gardener
45. School Theme Song
46. We Should Try Harder for the Children
47. Never Letting Students Lose Face
48. Halloween
49. A Cup of Tea
50. Christmas is Coming!
51. Two Spiders
52. Valentine's Day
53. No Man is an Island
54. When to Contact Parents
55. Confessions of an Eraser Bandit
56. An Ice Cream Adventure
57. Back to School
58. Autumn Holidays

GAMES
1. Listening Lottory
2. Guess Who?
3. Junior Scrabble
4. Picture Fun Word Bingo
5. Food Lotto
6. What Am I?
7. Suspense
8. Giant Action Verb Flash Cards
9. Parts of the Body Puzzle
10. My First Words Scrabble
11. Little Letters
12. The Gesture Game
13. The Ramen Game
14. Emotional Adjectives Flash Cards
15. Go Home
16. Alphabet Bingo
17. Twister
18. Food Flash Cards
19. Alphabet Train Puzzle
20. World Kids Flash Cards
21. What Am I? #2
22. Ladybug Letters
23. Hedbanz for Kids

ELT BOOK
REVIEWS

1. How to Teach English
2. The Basic Newbury House Dictionary of American English
3. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
4. Focus on the Language Classroom
5. Psycholinguistics
6. Beyond Methods
7. A Framework for Task-Based Learning
8. Window on Britain
9. Issues in Applied Linguistics
10. 3 Journals On CD
11. Classroom Testing
12. The Language Teacher's Voice
13. Children Learning English
14. Sustained Content Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL
15. Teaching English Through English
16. Sound Foundations
17. Teaching English as an International Language
18. Research Methods For English Language Teachers
19. Using Student-Centered Methods with Teacher-Centered ESL Students
20. The Phonology of English as an International Language
21. More than a Native Speaker
22. Discourse Analysis
23. Pragmatics
24. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
25. Second Language Teaching & Learning
26. New Ways in Teaching English at the Secondary Level and Perspectives on Secondary School EFL Education
27. Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice
28. Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring
29. How Languages are Learned
30. Practical English Language Teaching
31. Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition
32. New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms
33. Language Activities for Teenagers
34. General Douglas MacArthur and The Occupation that Changed Japan

JAPAN BOOK
REVIEWS

1. Japanese Higher Education As Myth
2. Dogs and Demons: Tales from the dark side of Japan
3. The New Japan: Debunking Seven Stereotypes
4. Moving Zen: One Man's Journey to the Heart of Karate
5. The Couch Potato's Guide to Japan - Inside the World of Japanese TV
6. Tokyo Stories: Life, Love and Laughter in the Big City

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