The challenge of building a profile for language courses in what Tony Liddicoat has described as the “monolingual mindset of Australia” is well known. If those of us struggle to do so in metropolitan areas when we have access to resources such as restaurants staffed by native speakers, foreign …
Teaching and Learning
Improving productive skills via contemporary issues
If you are looking for a different way to develop your students speaking, reading and writing skills in Japanese, then perhaps you should try this controversial method. One of the challenges of a language teacher, particularly at the secondary level, is that the level of target language …
“Surprise, surprise! Students enjoy learning from traditional books.”
“Surprise, surprise! Students enjoy learning from traditional books.” So begins Richard Glover’s article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum, April 6-7 2019, p3). I found this interesting as when we first wrote the Jblog textbook series we also looked into creating an ebook version. We …
