What is TEFL NEWS?
TEFL NEWS is Teaching English as a Foreign Language, North, East,
West and South. That means that this newsletter carries
information on TEFL to the north, south, east, and west.
TEFL NEWS is a quarterly publication, and it will appear at the
end of March, June, September, and December at URL:
http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/kkitao/teflnews/.
We started this newsletter mainly to inform people throughout the
world about what is happening in Japan in the field of TEFL, and
secondarily to inform people in Japan about what is happening in
TEFL in other parts of the world. Thus this newsletter will
mainly be made up of conference reports, research reports, and
events or news related to TEFL in Japan by Japanese people in
English. We will include similar content related to overseas
events, written in either in English or in Japanese. We encourage
Japanese people to write articles in English.
Conference reports need to include the date, the place, the
organizer, the number of participants, the content of
presentations, what were special about the conference, etc., as
well as the comments or evaluations by the writer. The editors
will not correct the English, though they reserve the right to
accept or reject the manuscript, to request the writer to make
changes, and to make minor editorial changes.
We will also include links to articles, reviews, reports, etc., on
TEFL. If you have articles, reviews, reports, etc., related to
TEFL on line, we would appreciate it if you would send us the
URLs.
We feel that Japan is one of the major countries where active
academic activities in TEFL are carried out, and it is our
responsibility to provide information about what is going on here
to those outside Japan.
We are hoping that TEFL NEWS will be a bridge between Japan and
many countries to the north, east, west, and south. We look
forward to your contributions and cooperation.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to
contact us.