ETAS Journal Collection
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Editor’s Notes: Welcome to the ETAS Journal homepage. Assembling every issue is a constant reminder of one of the never-ending challenges of editing ETAS Journal – maintaining the many different kinds of balance we always try to strike. Our goal is to find the delicate balance between the varying academic backgrounds, individual expertise and interests, and professional needs of our readers while also not neglecting their divergent aesthetic tastes. Hence, selecting pieces for publication that will appeal to every reader is often a difficult, even agonizing, task. To this end, we publish articles addressed to specialists interested in innovative work within as well as outside their own subject expertise while offering non-specialists examples of recent pedagogical approaches and new ways of conceiving and engaging the field of ELT. Rather than finding a common ground, we prefer to celebrate diversity. In most editions, we try to combine a Special Supplement as well as our usual Journal rubrics.
Over the past few years, I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about the direction and future of ETAS Journal, in particular, the prospect of mining the creative opportunities of the internet to give our publication a more robust, more vital online presence. This prospect is about to become a reality as we look forward to the launching of the new ETAS website on 12th September 2015. For ETAS Journal, this is a promising start, offering us yet another stride into the future to explore possibilities for developing other electronic initiatives designed to give our printed edition a much larger audience while ensuring its sustainability and preservation. It is our hope that in the foreseeable future, ETAS J will be available in a variety of formats and multiple media for our readers’ reading pleasure.
If we have succeeded in meeting most if not all the needs of our readership, then some of our goals have been achieved.
Winter 2015
Special Supplement: Cross-Cultural Communication and ELT
For those of us in the business of English Language Teaching, teaching and representing a foreign culture is almost as tremendous a job responsibility as actually teaching English. Language and culture are inextricably intertwined and awareness of the myriad issues in cross-cultural communication has become increasingly paramount. For these reasons and more, we are delighted to draw our readers’ attention to this issue’s Special Supplement on Cross-Cultural Communication and ELT
Spring 2014
Special Feature: ETAS Crossing Border: Voices from France
We invite our readers to enjoy another exciting issue, with articles about pronunciation in English as a lingua franca, how to teach reading if you are a new teacher, how to recycle newspapers into classroom materials, how to make use of songs in the language classroom, how to use improvisational theater activities in Business English training, and deciding whether to ban or embrace smartphones in the class – these and more breathe life into this issue.
Winter 2013
ETAS 30th Special Anniversary Features
In this winter edition of ETAS Journal, we are again showcasing an eclectic mix of articles on various topics such as the ESP coursebook, learning styles, understanding intercultural communication, or cross-cultural discussion forum in the foreign language classroom, to mention a few.
Summer 2013
Special Anniversary Issue: 30 Years of ETAS and beyond
There is an interesting juxtaposition of articles in this edition. Systemic functional grammar, contemporary approaches to professional development and a diverse range of articles offering practical classroom activities are just some of the things that you will find behind this glossy cover.
Spring 2013
Special Anniversary Issue: 30 Years of ETAS and beyond
30 years of ETAS are celebrated in this edition. Arguments are presented for and against grammar correction, learning styles are explored, tips for classroom management are covered as well as teaching via Skype and activities for using corpora. Enjoy the read!
Winter 2012
Special Feature: ETAS Crossing Borders: Voices from Greece
As the title suggests, the authors in this edition are from a range of geographical locations and cultures. This diversity is reflected in the articles which touch on topics such as, the use of literature in ELT, Business English teaching and the challenges faced, the use of pictogloss and silent movies. Read more about this collection of research-based and practice-oriented articles.