User:Thomas Simmons/Bibliography

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BOOK REVIEWS

• Holiday in Hell. Review of Kristin Semmens's (2005) Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich. New York: Palgrave, Published by: H-Genocide (February, 2006)' [1]
• Review of George Hicks's (1997) Japan's Hidden Apartheid: The Korean minority and the Japanese. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. The New Observer (August 1999) [2]
• Review of Robert Wilcox's (1995) Japan's secret war: Japan's race against time to build its own atomic bomb. New York: Marlowe & Company. The New Observer (Jun. 1999) [3]
• Review of Thomas Armstrong's Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. JALT Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, December, 1996
• Review of Horio Teruhisa's Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan: State Authority and Intellectual Freedom; Amano Ikuo's Education and Examination in Modern Japan; and Gary H. Tsuchimochi's Education Reform in Postwar Japan: The 1946 U. S. Education Mission. (comparative review of three books), JALT Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Tokyo, JAPAN, May, 1995.

EDUCATION-Labour Relations

• “Origins and Responses to Conflict in the Teaching Environment.” with Shiozawa Tadashi, The Language Teacher , vol. 18, no. 4, Tokyo, JAPAN, 1994.
• “Working Conditions and Career Parameters in the Educational Environment for Foreign Teachers of Languages in Japan. ” with Shiozawa Tadashi, Journal of International Studies, vol. 10, Chubu University, Kasugai, JAPAN, 1993. ERIC ED 380 358. [4]

EDUCATION- Policy and Planning

• "Change in Language Education: Historical and Social Perspectives." with Shiozawa Tadashi, Torkil Christensen and Dawn Yonally, On JALT '95: Curriculum and Evaluation. JALT Conference Proceedings, Nagoya, Japan, November, 1995. ERIC ED 402 770. (Second of three papers listed in one document.) [5]
• “The Winds of Change in Education in Japan.” With Shiozawa Tadashi and Dawn Yonally, Aichi University of Education Research Journal, Kariya, JAPAN, 1995.
• “Social and Administrative Parameters in Methodological Innovation and Implementation in Post- Secondary Vocational Schools in Japan.” with Shiozawa Tadashi, Journal of International Studies, vol. 11, Chubu University, Kasugai, JAPAN, 1994. ERIC ED 380 357. [6]
• “Change Facilitators and Curriculum Innovation in Foreign Language Teaching in Japan.” with Shiozawa Tadashi, Journal of International Studies , vol. 12, Chubu University, Kasugai, JAPAN, 1994.

EDUCATION-Pedagogy, methodology, and programme design

• "Task Based Content Area Syllabus for a Practical Reading and Writing Course at a Post-secondary Vocational School in Japan." 1995. (paper for master degree at Aston University) ERIC ED 385 830. [7]
• "Do Improved Test Scores Indicate Improved Skills?" with Shiozawa Tadashi , Journal of International Studies , vol. 13, Chubu University, Kasugai, JAPAN, 1995. ERIC ED 390 252. [8]
• "Constructive Methods of Dealing with Large Classes." with Dawn Yonally and 
Edward Haig, On JALT '95: Curriculum and Evaluation. JALT Conference Proceedings, Nagoya, Japan, November, 1995. ERIC ED 402 775 (see last article in collection pp. 94-99) [9].
• "Foreign language education in the distance learning mode in Vietnam: Status, potential & limitations." paper, UNESCO International Conference in Teacher Development for a New Asia Proceedings, Bangkok, THAILAND 6-8 December, 1995.

APPLIED LINGUISTICS and SOCIO-ANTHROPOLOGY

• "Face Threats In A Faceless Medium: Negotiating Ideological Parameters In Computer Mediated Communication." paper, Language and Ideology: Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics 6th Conference, VOl. 1 Jan Verschueren (Ed.) International Pragmatics Association. Antwerp, BELGIUM, 1998
• "ESP, Genre and Language Registers for Instruction in Japan.” paper, The Language Teacher , vol. 22, no. 11, Tokyo, JAPAN, 1998
• "Analysis of discourse in computer mediated communication." with Shiozawa Tadashi, Language Lab. vol. 33, Tokyo, Japan, June 1996.
• "Politeness Theory in Computer Mediated Communication: Face Threatening Acts in a 'Faceless' Medium." dissertation for M.Sc., Applied Linguistics, Teaching English for Specific Purposes, Language Studies Unit, Department of Modern Languages, Aston University, Birmingham, England, August, 1994. ERIC ED 381 005. [10]
• "Teaching Discourse Strategies for Communication in the Japanese EFL Classroom," with Shiozawa Tadashi, Journal of International Studies , vol. 14, Chubu University, Kasugai, JAPAN, 1995.