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I came across a nice set of links to Second Language Acquisition and Foriegn Language Learning sites, with a slight emphasis on reading and writing - by Charles Nelson.
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EFL Bloggers in Japan

Thanks to Michael Furmanovsky’s hard fought battles at Ryukoku, we have a very nice set-up this semester in the computer rooms, with Mac Powerbooks on U-shaped tables in the middle and PCs lining the fringe of the rooms. Such a set-up facilitates discussion, as students can see each others faces. [...]

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Japanese EFL Bloggers
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Earlier this week I sat down on my tatami floor here in Kyoto and voted for president. On the ballot were listed three offices: President, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative; each with candidates representing four parties: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Constitutional. For any of you who follow American politics, you may recognize [...]

In his 1968 book Education and Ecstasy, George Leonard argues that those who carry the true torch of learning operate outside of the strictures of Civilization:
These people are varied. They are the rogue. The common criminal is not among them. Most criminals, after their initial break with the pattern, fall into repetitive, [...]

James Farmer recently set-up, Incsub,
a site offering free hosting, installation, support, and consultation
for teachers wishing to use weblogs, wikis, and other Course Management
Systems.  This is an incredible service to the educational
community of which teachers ought to take full advantage.  Indeed,
a few more sites like this one could be the tipping point for
widespread use of such [...]

At the 2004 Kyoto JALT conference last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Jason Ward of the American University of Sharjah who gave an interesting presentation entitled, Alternative Assessment and the Rise of the Weblog, in which he shared with the audience his recent experience of having his EFL students use weblogs. [...]