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| Talking about the Australian Mosaic Kim and Jacoba wrote Talking about the Australian Mosaic on the request of the publisher, Hokuseido, who wanted to publish something about Australia. Hokuseido initially envisaged the project as being a reading and writing text, but then decided to release a four skills book instead. The authors, Jacoba and Kim, wanted to give a realistic glance into as many aspects of Australian culture as possible, while providing activities for language development, discussion, presentation, and awareness building about matters of cultural similarities and differences between Japan, Australia, and other countries. The result is Talking about the Australian Mosaic. We hope you and your learners enjoy using it. |
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Jacoba Akazawa Kim Bradford-Watts Kim has taught in a wide range of contexts in the Kinki region of Japan since 1988. She is co-edits the Japan Association of Language Teaching's (JALT) monthly journal, The Language Teacher and the conference proceedings, as well as TOLd you so!, the newsletter for the JALT Teaching Older Learners Special Interest Group. Kim is also active on the editorial advisory boards of ETJ-Journal and Nexus: A Journal for Teachers in Development. Kim holds a masters level degree in Applied Linguistics from Macquarie University, Australia. She is currently studying for a masters level degree in Educational Studies from The University of Newcastle, Australia. Please see Kim's home page for more details. New! Check out Kim's new academic writing and presentation book! |
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