Issue Contents and Highlights
Contributors
Editorial
Hunter McEwan
Japanese English Education and Learning: A History of Adapting Foreign Cultures
Minoru Shimizu
Promoting Learner Autonomy: Student Perceptions of Responsibilities in a Language Classroom in East Asia
Shien Sakai, Akiko Takagi, and Man-Ping Chu
Teacher Certi!cation Renewal System: An Analysis Based on a Nation-Wide Survey of Japanese Teachers of English
Natsue Nakayama, Akiko Takagi, and Hiromi Imamura
Problems in the Assistant Language Teacher System and English Activity at Japanese Public Elementary Schools
Chie Ohtani
Disregard of Opportunity Gap Inequalities in Policy Debates over Mandatory English Education at Public Elementary Schools in Japan
Ryoji Matsuoka
The English Program at Murasakino Senior High School
Haruo Minagawa
Learning from Analysis of Japanese EFL Texts
George R. S. Weir and Toshiaki Ozasa
The Bukkyo University and University of Hawai‘i College of Education Partnership
Hunter McEwan, Sunao Goto, and Yukiyo Horike