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Breaking, But Not Broken by Ghazally Ismail, Ahmad Ibrahim and Hisham Badrul Hashim was launched on 8 August, but had not yet reached the bookshops when it came into my hands. It is a beautifully produced and illustrated book. Its foreword is written by Sultan Nazrin Shah of Perak, who
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📗This is a review I wrote for The Language Teacher in December 1988, when I had been working in Japan for only three and a half years. It surfaced while I was tidying my office, and I was struck by how much it reflects my current interests, even though it
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📕Brumfit, C. (1984). Communicative methodology in language teaching: The roles of fluency and accuracy. Cambridge University Press. I am writing a book this summer, and this morning I intuitively reached along the row of books I set up on my desk months ago — twenty or thirty I expected to need
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📝Infants live before the distinction between work and play has been instilled in them — before comparison with others and before measurement. What they have instead is the urge to try something, to find the edge of it, and to push past that edge. As we get older, that simple urge
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📗What follows is a summary of what the series says about the state of language teaching. One point does not sit easily as a single item, because it is what holds the whole list together. Criticality is understood here not as a pre-approved political or ethical stance to be
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📗Book Review — Professionalising English Language Teaching: Concepts and Reflections for Action in Teacher Education This is the eighth post in a series reading a single issue of JALT Journal, the May 2026 number, for what the field shows about itself when it speaks in its own pages. Editorial · Hu &
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📗Book Review — Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness This is the seventh post in a series reading a single issue of JALT Journal, the May 2026 number, for what the field shows about itself when it speaks in its own pages. Editorial · Hu & Hashim · Ellis
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📗Book Review — Social Justice in Language Education: Taking Action This is the sixth post in a series reading a single issue of JALT Journal, the May 2026 number, for what the field shows about itself when it speaks in its own pages. Editorial · Hu & Hashim · Ellis · Machida Reviews of
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📗Book Review — The Art of Intercultural Business Communication: A Competency-Based Approach This is the ninth post in a series reading a single issue of JALT Journal, the May 2026 number, for what the field shows about itself when it speaks in its own pages. Editorial · Hu & Hashim · Ellis
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📗Approaching Reviews of Reviews This is the fifth in a series reading a single issue of JALT Journal, the May 2026 number, for what the field shows about itself when it speaks in its own pages. This article explains how I have approached my reviews of the four book reviews
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📗 認知言語学から見た生成AIと外国語学習 — 町田章 This is the fourth in a series of posts in which I analyse the May 2026 issue of JALT Journal cover to cover, reading not so much for what each piece contributes but for what the whole reveals about the world the writers share. Editorial · Hu & Hashim
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📗Part 3 — Task-Based Language Teaching — Rod Ellis This is the third in a series of posts in which I analyse the May 2026 issue of JALT Journal cover to cover, reading not so much for what each piece contributes but for what the whole reveals about the world the