June 2004

The Japan Association of College English Teachers

No.144[Forward]

JACET 2004: Kanto-ko-etsu District Committee Established
President, Yoji Tanabe
JACET is developing from its structural diversity into unity to generate fresh power and ideas forEnglish language education to cope with worldwide academic and social mobility. We hope to add a
new chapter in two years.
A new division committee, the Kanto-ko-etsu District Committee, was established as one of thesteering committees of the JACET headquarters in April, 2004. The decision was made after long
discussions at the JACET biannual meetings of the Future Plans Committee, which is composed of all
the chapter directors and designated headquarters directors. This is a giant step forward that will
enhance the power and influence of the organization both in the domestic arena and the international
one as well. The Kanto-ko-etsu District is expected to come into being in fiscal 2006, andconsequently JACET will have seven local chapters unified under the JACET administrative
headquarters.
Serious discussions regarding the structural change took place when the Future Plans Committee
members realized that the local chapters had become strong enough to manage themselves as if they
were independent academic associations. The oldest chapter, the Kansai chapter, has been active formore than thirty years, since 1972. Even the newest chapter, the Hokkaido chapter, is going to markits twentieth anniversary in 2006.
The discussions finally resulted in the conclusion that an innovative nationwide structure had to becreated so that all the local chapters stand as equals under the umbrella of JACET. This reform willdefinitely help each local chapter, including the Kanto-ko-etsu District division, to take part innationwide projects on an equal footing, and will also help JACET itself become more powerful so as
to be an influential academic organization.
This JACET nationwide unity that is to be achieved while integrating regional diversity will also be
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likely to produce various tasks to be carried out. One of the most important of those tasks might be tohave all JACET local chapter journals partly integrated into the official headquarters version. The
Bulletin is the organ of JACET. Every local chapter has its own local journal, and this arrangement
will continue. It is the local journals that encourage the local members to make contributions to theirown chapter and provide information to students and the general public as well. Acknowledging thisfact, however, JACET should nonetheless explore the possibility of having an even more integrated
and unified version of the journal than the present ones. The nationwide version should never be
shrunk or devalued for the sake of the local ones. The JACET Bulletin is invaluable in enabling us to
influence the world of English-language education.
Additionally, the seven-chapter structure will hopefully promote management alteration of theannual convention. I, as President of JACET, strongly believe that the annual convention should be
conducted solely in English, so that all the participants from overseas can freely participate in all
discussions. Until now, all the annual conventions have been managed in a mixed style in which all
the plenary and invited addresses are made in English except for those given by Japanese speakers.
While quite a few individual oral presentations are made in English, all the workshops and symposia
are conducted in Japanese except for the plenary symposium. Annual conventions should facilitate
more opportunities for people from overseas to get together and discuss issues related to Englishlanguage education more freely in all the rooms provided, whereas local chapter conferences can be
managed in whatever style is deemed appropriate.
This trend toward internationalization is actually what the Japanese Ministry of Education strongly
promotes in its action plan issued in the English Forum 2003, in which the Ministry on the basis of arecommendation by the Central Educational Council is planning to design English education
programs in an integrated curriculum from primary through tertiary education. The same concept was
indicated in the English Forum 2004*. JACET, as an academic association of professional
researchers/teachers, has supported the Ministry's 2003 Action Plan based on its 2002 Strategic Plan
with professionally cautious and critical minds. As is generally known, JACET has been asked to be
one of the cooperating organizations for the Forums because of its nationwide intellectual resources.
We still remember AILA '99 Tokyo held at Waseda University five years ago. The general theme of
the convention was Unity and Diversity.
We were struggling to resolve how we could achieve
global unity in this diversified world. Now, we have a new version ofUnity and Diversity as
our own task. We must bring more unified power to specify local activities. This is actually what wewill have to develop for our own future JACET.
*Regarding the Establishment of an Action Plan to Cultivate

Japanese with English Abilities - Upgrading

English Education in Japan - sponsored by the Ministry of Education and held March 28, 2004.

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News from the JACET OfficeSecretary General MIKAMI Akira
The English Teaching Seminar was held on March
27. We held the spring JACET Board Meeting on
the 30th and 31st of March. The chapter presidents
and board members attended the two-day session.
The main topic was the term of duty for JACET
administrative staff and activities in the area ofKanto-Koetsu district. This year we are going tohave the 32nd JACET Summer Seminar from
August 18-21 at Kusatsu Seminar House in Gunma.
Those who would like to attend the summer seminarshould check the availability even after the deadline.
We sometimes have several cancellations. We aregoing to have the 43rd Annual Convention from
September 3-5 at Chukyo University in Nagoya. We
look forward to seeing you there.

Chapter News
<Hokkaido Chapter Report>
The Hokkaido Chapter’s schedule for fiscal year
2004 is as follows:
Annual Chapter Convention
The 2004 Hokkaido Chapter convention will be heldat Hokkai Gakuen Univ. on July 10. The general
meeting will include a presentation and examinationof the 2003 fiscal year financial report and the 2004
fiscal year schedule and budget. After the general
meeting, Harumi Tanaka (Professor Emeritus atNanzan Univ.) will give a lecture on World
Englishes. Research presentations and a symposium
will follow the lecture. The title of the symposium
will be “Reconsidering college English education:
What should be taught and how should it be taught?”
The chairman will be Yukie Ueno (Hokkai Gakuen
Univ.), and the panelists will include speakers from
JACET SIG (Hokkaido Chapter). A reception will
follow the annual convention.

Lecture Meetings
The first lecture meeting for 2004 was held at Fuji
Women’s College on May 29. Tomoyuki Sasaki(Hokkaido Institute of Technology) gave a lecture
entitled, “Writing instruction to non-English-major
students from a debate-perspective.” Yasuyo
Matsumoto (Asahikawa Univ.) gave another lecture,“The influence of globalisation on traditional cultural
views.”
Two more lecture meetings are scheduled for the2004 fiscal year. Details will be announced.
Publications
The JACET Hokkaido Chapter Research Paper
Collection (Hokkaido JACET Journal, No.2) will be
issued in December 2004. The call for papers wasannounced in the 17th issue of the Chapter
Newsletter, which was released on March 31. The
Chapter Newsletter (No.18) will be issued on March
31, 2005.
(Yasushi Kawai, Hokkaido Univ.)<Tohoku Chapter Report>
Chapter Activities in 2004
1. Annual Chapter Convention
June 5, 2004, Tohoku Gakuin Univ., 14:00-17:10
Special lecture
Yano Yasukata (Weseda Univ.) For What Purpose
do We Teach English?: Recommendations ofEnglish as an International Language
Symposium
Theme: Developing Teacher Training Programs in a
New Era of TEFL
Chair: Muranoi Hitoshi (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.)
Panelists: Yano Yasukata (Waseda University),
Muranoi Hitoshi (Tohoku Gakuin Univ.),
Ishiyama Hitoshi (Miyagi Prefectural Board of
Education)

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2. Study Meetings
Two study meetings will be held in October and in
December. Details will be announced in the 26th
issue of The JACET-Tohoku Newsletter.
3. Publications
The JACET-Tohoku Newsletter will be published inJune (No. 26) and December (No. 27). Preparationof the first issue of JACET-Tohoku Bulletin is
progressing. A call for papers will be announced in
the 26th issue of The JACET-Tohoku Newsletter.
Officers of Tohoku Chapter
President: Chiba Motonobu (Miyagi National
College of Technology)
Advisors: Hatanaka Takami (Professor Emeritus,
Tohoku Gakuin Univ.), Kono Minoru (Professor
Emeritus, Akita Univ.)
Directors: Ogata Ryodo (Tohoku College of Arts
and Technology), Chiba Motonobu (Miyagi
National College of Technology)
Advisers: Hayasaka Takanori (Ohu Univ.), Itagaki
Nobuya (Miyagi Univ. of Education), Kojima
Hideo (Hirosaki Univ.), Narisawa Yoshio(Tohoku Gakuin Univ.), Watanabe Yoshinori(Akita Univ.)
Secretary-General: Takahashi Kiyoshi (Miyagi Univ.
of Education)
Research and Planning Committee: 18 members(Muranoi Hitoshi, Tohoku Gakuin Univ. & Okazaki
Kumiko, Miyagi National College of Technology)<Chubu Chapter Report>
The schedule for 2004 is given below, but the biggest
event of the Chubu Chapter this year is the 43rd
JACET Annual Convention to be held at Chukyo
University, Nagoya. We hope to see many of you
joining us here in the heart of Japan.

Chapter Steering Committee Meetings
Every month except August
Steering Committee Meetings for the JACET 43rd
Annual Convention
Dates: April 10, May 8, June 12, July 10 and August 14
Venue: Chukyo Univ.
JACET 43rd Annual Convention
Date: Sept 3-5
Venue: Chukyo Univ.
Theme: English as an International Language :Educational Goals and Standards
Chubu Chapter Convention (Lectures and Chapter
General Meeting)Date: June 5
Venue: Chukyo Univ.
Lecture Meetings
To be held in OctoberStudy Meetings
To be held in December
Newsletter
To be published in May and November
Chubu Chapter Bulletin
To be published in June
Between the months of January and March 2005, a
study meeting, a lecture meeting, chapter steeringcommittee meetings and steering committee
meetings for the 2005 Chubu Chapter Convention
are planned. Dates to be announced.
(Yasumi Murata, Chukyo Univ.)

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<Kansai Chapter Report>
Language teachers are placed in the current of
Educational Reform.
The theme of
Kansai Chapter Annual Conventions, Whereis English Education Heading,is a timely
one, as we must consider and implement ideal
reform.
Annual Chapter Conventions
Spring Convention: Date: June 5, 2004; Place:
University of Marketing and Distribution
Sciences
Theme: Educational Reform - Where Is English
Education Heading? –(a) Workshops
Session 1
Coordinator: Kanzaki, Takaaki (Kwansei
Gakuin Univ.); topic: Pedagogical English
Grammar in the 21st Century: Suggestions from
Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Usagebased Approach Presenters & topics: Yamamoto,Eiichi (Kansai Univ.) :Pragmatics andPedagogical English Grammar: Can We Ignore
Politeness? ; Omori, Ayako (Osaka Univ.) :Conceptual Metaphors in English and
Education for Communication Skills ; Yagi,
Katsumasa (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) :Whatto Teach in Pedagogical Grammar and What Not
to TeachSession 1: Chair: Uematsu, Shigeo (Setsunan
Univ.)＜Research Paper＞ Iwai, Chiharu (Graduate
Student, Osaka Univ.):
Side-Effects of Needs
Analysis - From the Perspective of TeacherLearner Communication – ; ＜ Reports on
Classroom Activities ＞ Togo, Tazu (Kyoto
Notre Dame Univ.):
From Group to
Individual Learning: A Case Study ; Waki,
Yoriko (Heian Jogakuin (St. Agnes') Junior &Senior High School): A Report: As an ESLClass Assistant for Primary Students at theJapanese School of Melbourne
Session 2: Chair: Yashima, Tomoko (Kansai
Univ.)＜ Research Papers ＞ Mizumoto, Atsushi(Graduate Student, Ritsumeikan Univ.):
Word Level Analysis of TOEIC by Using a
Small TOEIC Corpus ; Nishizawa, Midori(Canadian Academy) :Compliments in
Television Interviews ; Bradford-Watts, Kim(Osaka Gakuin university): Differences inFirst and Second Language Acquisition

Session 2
Coordinator & Panelist: Fouser, Robert J.
(Kyoto Univ.); topic: Developing a Language
Portfolio for Japan
Panelists: Matsuura, Kyoko (Kyoto Seian HighSchool), Nishio, Yuriko (Otani University),
Takehisa, Fumiyo (Nara University)

Session 3: Chair: Oguri, Yuko (Univ. of Shiga
Prefecure )＜Research Paper＞ Touno, Tsuyako (Graduate
Student, Kwansei Gakuin Univ.): Level
Indication of English Headwords in EnglishJapanese Dictionaries ;＜Publishers'
Pre se n t at i o n s＞ Yag i , S h i n i c h i ( C A S I O
C o m p u t e r C o . , L t d . ) : Te c h n o l o g i c a l
Development and an Update on Electronic
Dictionaries ; Nakamura, Miwa (Seiko
Instruments Inc.):
Bank of English on the
SII's Electronic Dictionary: Workshop on the
Use of Corpus in an Electronic Dictionary(b) Presentations(c) General Meeting

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(d) Lecture: Chair: Takahashi, Toshio (Kansai Univ.)
Ikegami, Yoshihiko (Professor, Graduate School ofShowa Women's Univ. /Professor Emeritus, Univ. ofTokyo): 'Construal' and 'Fashions of speaking' inEnglish and Japanese(Autumn Convention will be held on October 10,
2004 at Kyoto Univ. of Foreign Studies.)
Lectures
Several lecture meetings will be held (on July 3, Oct.
30, and Dec. 4, 2004 and March 5, 2005).
Other meetings
The first meetings of Steering Committee and Study
Planning Committee in 2004 are to be held on June 5.
These committees will be called several times until
March 2005.
Newsletter
JACET-Kansai Newsletter No. 23 was issued on
April 21, 2004. Four more issues will come out in
2004.

(A) Presentations
Hiroki Uchida, Sarah Haas and Neil Birt（Tottori
Univ. of Environmental Studies ） :Helping
Students Take Control of their Non-understanding ;Masanori Sato（post grad., Hiroshima City Univ.）:
A Gap in Learning between Junior and SeniorHigh School: On the Basis of a Quantitative Analysis
of English Textbooks ; Jun Sato（post grad.,Hiroshima City Univ.）: An Investigation into
the Researches on Interaction among Non-Native
Speakers of English; Toshiyuki Takagaki(Onomichi Univ.):
The Importance andPracticality of Getting Used to Englishes ; Roger
Nunn and Darren Lingley （ Kochi Univ. ） :Curriculum Development and Course Design:
Introducing the EPIC Programme ; Chiaki Iwai
（Hiroshima City Univ.）: Specifying the Issueof Teachability of Communication Strategies inReference to Levelt's Speech Production Model(Yukari Tokioka, Osaka Sangyo Univ. / Masumi
Azuma, Kobe Geijutsukoka Univ.)(B) Symposium: Merits and Demerits of English
Curriculum Reform
Panelists: Kozo Hirose（Shimane Univ.）, Seiichi
Ikadatsu （ Tottori Univ. ） , Hironobu Matsuoka（Yasuda Women's Univ.）<Chugoku-Shikoku Chapter Report>(3) Two seminars are scheduled for November 2004
and January 2005

In the academic year 2004, we will have our annual
convention, two seminars and two steeringcommittees, which are listed in chronological order.
(1) The 1st Steering Committee Meeting
The meeting is scheduled for June 4 and some items
will be discussed.

(4) The 2nd Steering Committee Meeting
The Meeting is scheduled for March 2005.
We would like to add that The JACET ChugokuShikoku Chapter Research Bulletin was issued in
April 2004.
（Hidetomo Torigoe, Takuma CNT）

(2) Annual Chapter Convention
The annual convention will be held at Matsuyama
University on June 5.
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<Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter Report>
Kyushu-Okinawa Activity Report
We had the first Chapter Steering Committee
Meeting and Spring General Meeting on April 17.
Main Chapter activities for the 2004 academic year
are as follows.
April 17 (Sat.)
Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter Spring General Meetingand Spring
Special Lecture (Venue: Nagasaki Junshin Catholic
Univ.)
April 24 (Sat.)
SIG East Asia English Education 44th Seminar(Venue: Seinan Gakuin Univ.)
Speaker: Prof. Shinji Ogasawara (Nagasaki
Univ.)
Topic: English Education in Saudi Arabia: with
Special Reference to its Curriculum Change
May 15 (Sat.)
SIG East Asia English Education 45th Seminar(Venue: Seinan Gakuin Univ.)
Speaker: Prof. Shin'ichiro Ishikawa (Kobe Univ.)
Topic: A Statistical Analysis of English Vocabulary
Used in Japanese and Korean Entrance
Examinations
May 31 (Sat.)
Deadline for submission to Annual Review ofEnglish Learning and Teaching No.8
July 31 (Sat.)
SIGs East Asia Eng. Education & English and theComputer (Joint Seminar)
Speaker: Dr. Yi-Ju Chen (Shih-Hsin Univ.)
Topic: Multimedia Use for ELT in Taiwan (Time& Place TBA)

AugustJACET 8000 Workshop (Venue: Siebold Univ.)*
October 9 (Sat.)
Chapter General Meeting and the 19th Annual
Conference (Venue: Fukuoka Jyogakuin Univ.)
November
Annual Review of English Learning and Teaching
No.8 to be publishedMarch, 2005
Kyushu-Okinawa
published

Chapter

Newslettertobe*“English and the Computer” and Tokyo-based SIG on
Basic Vocabulary plan to organize a workshop on
JACET 8000 at Siebold Univ. (Date TBA)On April 17, after the Spring General Meeting,
Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter invited Dr. Toshiharu
Yamamoto to deliver a lecture at our Spring Special
Lecture. He is Director of All Children's Textbooks
for the World (ACT for the World). His pastexperiences as a doctor engaged in helping patientsin the developing countries caused him to realize theimportance of education. “Without appropriate
education for local medical staff, their medical
institutions malfunction after doctors and nurses
from the developed countries leave. Without basic
education, people in the developing countries will
not overcome the rapid increase of domestic
population.”
His energetic talk attracted the attention of theaudience that day, and they understood why he isworking hardto produce a picture book forchildren all over the world, which depicts a wide
variety of different cultures, religions, ways of lifeand people's happiness, and which teaches that thebasic ethics of human beings are the same all over
the world. For those who were not lucky enough

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to attend his lecture, I recommend visiting his
homepage (www.act-org.jp).
This year our Chapter is planning to have the 19th
Annual conference on October 9. Until then, Chapter
Steering Committee Meetings are scheduled almost
every month, except in September. And after the
conference, we will have three committee meetingsin December 2004 and January and March 2005.
Incidentally, October 9, is also the day when our
Korean counterpart, Pan-Korean English Teachers
Association, plans to convene its annual conference.
Prof. Tatsuaki Tomioka of Fukuoka International
Univ. and Mr. Chiyuki Takubo of Affiliated HighSchool of Kurume University will be dispatched as
our delegates to the conference.
(Links)
Official Homepage
http://www.n-junshin.ac.jp/jacet/
Chapter-based SIG Homepages
JACET SIG on ESP
http://www.ge.knct.ac.jp/~yasunami/JACETKyushuOkinawa-ESP/
East Asia English Education
http://yuldo.net/asian-eng/index.htm(Toshihiko Uemura, Siebold Univ. of Nagasaki)Monthly Meeting Reports
国際英語(EIL)の理論と教育実践
母語話者の言語的・文化的枠組を超える「国際英語」に関する研究は 70 年代から本格化し、今日ますますその重要性の度合いを高めている。しかし一方，従来の「国際英語」
研究は、総合的な体系が欠如しているために、努力の割には生産的でない面があった。また「国際英語」教育の実践報告もこれまできわめて限られており、具体的な教育方法についての指針が示されていない。この月例会では、発表者が取り組んでいる国際英語研究の体系構築への試みを提示するとともに、大学の英語授業における国際英語の具現化を目指す発
表者の教育実践について報告した。
発表者の考案した国際英語研究の暫定的な体系図を本稿で掲げる紙幅はないが（当日はハンドアウトの一部として配布）、学際的領域としての国際英語研究の主要な関連科学に着目することによって、国際英語の理論的基盤
を「歴史学」「言語人類学」「マクロ社会言語学」「言語学及びミクロ社会言語学」「コミュニケーション論」の 5 分野に分けて組織化した部分を中心としている。
国際英語の教育実践の具体例としてはまず、発表者が講師をつとめたラジオ講座『百万人の英語』（文化放送系全国ネット）において、1989 年 8 月から 1990 年 3 月までの毎週 1 回実施した「国際英語対談シリーズ」について紹介した。マレーシア・香港・スリランカ・バ
ングラデシュ・フィリピン・フランスから次々とゲストを招いて Japanese English の話者である発表者と英語対談を行ない、多様な国
際英語の世界を日本の英語学習者に知ってもらうという番組であった。
大学における発表者の現在の授業実践は、
近年の構築主義の理念にヒントを得たもので、「国際英語の実践共同体」への正統的周辺参加を主眼としている。現実の国際英語使用者の日常的な言語活動としての、「ニュースの視聴・読解とそれに関する議論」というタスクに着目した。CALL 教室でインターネットと衛星テレビ放送を併用することにより、CNN のような英米のメディアのみならず、シンガポ
ールの Channel NewsAsia や中東の Aljazeera の英語版ウェブページなど非英米的なメディア
も参照しながら、授業当日のニュースを視聴
あるいは読解し、受講者と英語で話し合う。
また、生の国際英語素材に加えて、受講生の中には留学生もおり、国際英語のインタラク
ションが教室内で展開される。 この「国際１９３５―――――――――――――＜ 8 ＞――――――――――――――JACET 通信英語の実践共同体」は、日本人学生と留学生
そしてリーダーとしての教師も含めて、全員がお互いに学びあう場である。
日野信行（大阪大学）

The role of corpora and electronic dictionaries
in English-language learning and teaching
In this talk, I summarized my book Research on
Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Langauge
Learning (2001, Max Niemeyer Verlag), with which
I had the honor of winning the JACET Award 2003,
and discussed the implications of the role of corpora
and electronic dictionaries in ELT in Japan.
There has been a drastic change in the field ofelectronic reference media for language
learning/teaching these days. First, the use ofcomputer corpora (i.e., large collections of machinereadable texts for a linguistic analysis) can show us
what a typical pattern in language use is.
Major monolingual learner's dictionaries have been
compiled based on the information from corpora.
Projects have been launched to compile a corpus of
L2 learner language to investigate the interlanguage
process of EFL learners (e.g., JEFLL, SST, ICLE,HKUST, etc.). I personally designed an English TV
program for NHK based entirely on corpus data (e.g.,
Hyaku-Go de Start! Eikaiwa), where I selected 100
most basic keywords and showed their patterns ofuse by using corpus data such as
collocation/colligation statistics or word n-gram
information.
Second, I discussed the role of electronic dictionaries
and corpora in language learning. As we need todevelop a learning environment in which L2 learners
can study autonomously, it is essential to placeemphasis on reference tools as a core of the learning
system. It is encouraging to see more and more
people use electronic dictionaries and corpora, but
further research will be needed in order to answer
questions such as When and how should learners

use dictionaries? , What type of information
would be necessary in different situations ofdictionary use (encoding, decoding, etc.)? , Do
corpora take the place of dictionaries? , among
others.
Finally, I argued that we should find more
opportunities to communicate with researchers in thefield of NLP in order to make the best use of thetools and software that they have developed. I
showed major linguistic resources available free forresearch, some of which are not very widely known,
but extremely useful for language researchers. I
believe that one crucial key for the success of
langauge learning/teaching is to examine andevaluate the role of linguistic resources such as
corpora, electronic dictionaries, and NLP tools in thecontext of the entire learning environment in ourcountry.
(Yukio Tono, Meikai University)

Notices and Announcements
Monthly Study Committee Meeting Schedulefor 2004
We started our Monthly Study Meetings on April 17
with presentations by the 2003 JACET Awardwinner Prof. Yukio Tono and Prof. Hino, an expert
in EIL. The audience was larger than we could
accommodate even in the biggest room in thebuilding, and some members of the audience had tostand outside. We would like to apologize to thosepeople for the inconvenience.
Prof Yukio Tono of Meikai University dealt with therole of corpora and electronic dictionaries in English
language learning and teaching, and Prof. Nobuyuki
Hino of Osaka University talked about the theory
and practice of teaching EIL. All the participants
were inspired by the two speakers.

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On May 15, we had the second meeting, inviting two
JACET Award winners of the past, Prof. Genji Hatta
of Sugiyama Jogakuen University, and Prof. Akihiro
Ito of Aichi Gakuin University. They gave inspiring
lectures on collaborative action research with respect
to effective storytelling at the primary level and the
difficulties encountered in the order of English
relative clauses, respectively. The speakers gavesuggestions vis-à-vis the teaching of English in Japan,
where English is taught and learned in an input-poor
environment.
Speakers in June will talk about practical ideas forutilizing standardized tests such as TOEFL and
TOEIC in university English language programs.
The speakers are expected to be Prof. Kenichi Namai
of Waseda University, Prof. Takashi Kawabe ofTokyo Denki University, and Prof. Madoka Kawanoof Hoshi University. The topics of their speeches will
be announced shortly on the JACET home-page.
In July, we will have the honor of welcoming theperson of the year at ILTA (International Language
Testing Association), Prof. Miyoko Kobayashi of
Kanda University of International Studies. She wasawarded the 2002 ILTA Best Paper Award for her
outstanding publication in the field of language
testing in 2002. We will also have the pleasure ofhearing about the newly-published book by the
Bilingualism SIG. The chairperson of that SIG,
Prof. Usui Yoshiko of Tama University will give usa clear picture of what the book is for and how it
should be used.
Although the details are as yet unfixed, on October
16, Prof. Nobuyuki Honna of Aoyama Gakuin
University and Prof. Yasunari Takada of Tokyo
University will explain to us the results of theirMonkasho-funded research on TEFL in Japan. On
December 20th, representatives of the Language
Testing SIG and the English Usage SIG will present
the results of their research and survey, respectively.
In March, 2004, we will hold our last study meeting,inviting some outstanding presenters of JACET 2004
and other academic conferences.
We abolished the participation fee system this year
for the benefit of graduate school students. We
would very much appreciate it if you would informanyone who is interested in the teaching of English
or researching issues related thereto of our activities.
(Fujiko Sano, Surugadai University)

Main Articles in this Issue
Forward (Yoji Tanabe)News from the JACET Office(Secretary General MIKAMI Akira)Chapter News
Monthly Meeting Reports
Notice and Announcements

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Editors:
Y. Nakazato, W. O’Connor and H. Yoshida
JACET News
Published June 30, 2004
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