A Sonic Boom: Impressions of JALT 1990
This tour of highlights at the 1990 conference of the Japanese Association of Language Teachers (JALT) in Omiya, Japan, conveys some of the excitement from the heyday of American branch campuses and the Japanese bubble economy.

ESL Teacher Training
This is a 14-week syllabus for an introductory ESL teacher-training course, based on experience teaching ESL in South America and Japan, as well as current "best practice" research.

The Use of Flowcharts and Logic to Teach Conversational Skills in Advanced ESL Classes
Robb Scott's 1984 masters research was the first published comprehensive analysis of the potential for the use of flowcharts in ESL teaching. The paper is available through ERIC (ED 247 744 or FL 014 406). Copies may also be ordered from The Liberty Group.

Making Sense in ESL: A Set of Three Rhetorical Structures
This is a 1988 working paper first published at the University of Kansas. Three rhetorical structures for reading, logical conversation and argument-essay writing are presented as cognitive "templates" for a structured content-based approach to ESL teaching. This paper is available through ERIC (ED 342 267 or FL 020 134). Copies may also be ordered from The Liberty Group.

The Magic Bonsai Tree
Robb Scott co-authored this story with a fellow teacher at SIU-C Niigata's campus in Nakajo, Japan. Each new episode became the learning text for beginning-level Japanese students of English. Utilizing simple vocabulary and their impressions of the local Nakajo context, the teachers encouraged very rapid progress in listening ability among their students. Students anticipated upcoming events in the storyline and so actually participated in developing the story themselves.

How to Use Your Summer Vacation
This essay, constructed with input from students in International Studies at Chubu University, in Kasugai, Japan, gave them a model to refer to in composing their own personal essays. A videotape student demo of the Classical Essay form is available through The Liberty Group.

Student-Generated Rules for ESL Classrooms
This list of rules was produced by a group of students at the University of Nevada-Reno, International Division, in Tokyo, Japan, in the spring of 1990.

All Sorts of English
These remarks were published in The Daily Yomiuri, an English newspaper in Japan, in response to a question as to whether Japanese teachers of English ought to model their speech after British or American speakers of English.

A Stylistic Analysis of "The School Boy"
This William Blake poem provides insights regarding the value of a student-centered approach to education.

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