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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 — 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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📗 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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📝In the early 1990s, I was giving a workshop for MA students at Columbia University, most of whom were practicing Japanese high school teachers of English. The worksheet I handed out contained a wide range of activities. One section offered five instructions, each followed by a blank line. The first
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📝I was sitting down for lunch with my mother-in-law. She is 93 and living with dementia. I brought two glasses of water to the table, one for her and one for me. Before I put them down, I gave her a choice: Would you like wet water or
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📗Part 1: The Editorial Pages of the JALT Journal May 2026 This is the first 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
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📝One afternoon in the autumn of 1984, sitting in my living room in South Parade, Oxford, I got a phone call that changed my life. It was from a professor in the Faculty of Education at Okayama University. With him was an English gentleman I had never met, but had