2021 New Year Bulletin
Thank you for your continued support for Candlin & Mynard ePublishing during this difficult year.
New publications
1. Life and Education in Japan Series
We published the first three titles in the Life and Education in Japan series:
We published the first three titles in the Life and Education in Japan series:
Teacher Narratives From the Eikaiwa Classroom: Moving Beyond "McEnglish."
Edited by Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto
This book includes 16 chapters written by current and former eikaiwa (English conversation school) teachers to illustrate a complexity within the eikaiwa profession that has been thus far largely ignored. Through teacher narratives, the authors explore the unique and often problematic world of eikaiwa. Read more....
Edited by Daniel Hooper and Natasha Hashimoto
This book includes 16 chapters written by current and former eikaiwa (English conversation school) teachers to illustrate a complexity within the eikaiwa profession that has been thus far largely ignored. Through teacher narratives, the authors explore the unique and often problematic world of eikaiwa. Read more....
Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From our Quarter.
Edited by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie L. Cook
The goal of this book is to provide information, inspiration, and mentorship to teachers (namely foreign women, but not restricted to such) as they navigate the gendered waters of teaching English in Japanese higher education. Read more...
Edited by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie L. Cook
The goal of this book is to provide information, inspiration, and mentorship to teachers (namely foreign women, but not restricted to such) as they navigate the gendered waters of teaching English in Japanese higher education. Read more...
Expatriate Families and Education in Japan: Experiences, Issues, and Challenges.
Edited by Melodie Lorie Cook and Louise George Kittaka
The purpose of this book is to show how research on families can be used to offer inspiration, suggestions, and guidance to intercultural families choosing to school their children in the regular Japanese school system. Read more...
Edited by Melodie Lorie Cook and Louise George Kittaka
The purpose of this book is to show how research on families can be used to offer inspiration, suggestions, and guidance to intercultural families choosing to school their children in the regular Japanese school system. Read more...
If you are interested in contributing a title to the Life and Education in Japan series, please see the website for details and consider contacting us with an initial proposal. Read more...
2. Autonomous Language Learning Series
We published three new edited books in this series:
We published three new edited books in this series:
The Teacher’s Role in Developing Learner Autonomy.
Edited by Kateřina Sedláčková, Barbora Chovancová, and Štěpánka Bilová.
As the title suggests, it is the teacher who is in the spotlight of this volume on learner autonomy. The issues addressed herein include the specific and ever-changing role of teachers within the context of autonomous learning. Read more...
Edited by Kateřina Sedláčková, Barbora Chovancová, and Štěpánka Bilová.
As the title suggests, it is the teacher who is in the spotlight of this volume on learner autonomy. The issues addressed herein include the specific and ever-changing role of teachers within the context of autonomous learning. Read more...
Navigating Foreign Language Learner Autonomy.
Edited by Christian Ludwig, Giovanna Tassinari, and Jo Mynard
Navigating Foreign Language Learner Autonomy provides novel insights into both the theory and practice of learner autonomy in the context of foreign language education, and does so in multiple languages and through multiple voices. Read more...
Edited by Christian Ludwig, Giovanna Tassinari, and Jo Mynard
Navigating Foreign Language Learner Autonomy provides novel insights into both the theory and practice of learner autonomy in the context of foreign language education, and does so in multiple languages and through multiple voices. Read more...
Supporting Learners and Educators in Developing Language Learner Autonomy.
Edited by Jo Mynard, Michelle Tamala, and Ward Peeters.
Through six detailed chapters, the contributing authors look at different aspects of learner autonomy, paying special attention to the ‘social turn’ in researching language learner autonomy development and second language acquisition, Read more…
Edited by Jo Mynard, Michelle Tamala, and Ward Peeters.
Through six detailed chapters, the contributing authors look at different aspects of learner autonomy, paying special attention to the ‘social turn’ in researching language learner autonomy development and second language acquisition, Read more…
We will be shortly be publishing the following monograph: Learners’ Lived Experiences: Autonomy and Agency in Language Learning by Diego Mideros
If you are interested in contributing a monograph or edited volume to the Autonomous Language Learning series, please see the website for details and consider contacting us with an initial proposal. Read more...
If you are interested in contributing a monograph or edited volume to the Autonomous Language Learning series, please see the website for details and consider contacting us with an initial proposal. Read more...
3. Positive Pedagogical Praxis Series
Learner-Controlled Tasks for the Autonomy Classroom: A Teacher's Resource Book.
By Christian Ludwig and Lawrie Moore-Walter.
This book presents easy-to-use tasks in order to promote a learner-centered language classroom. The photocopiable tasks can be used by teachers of varying levels of experience with the purpose of putting the learners in the driving seat of their own learning. Read more...
By Christian Ludwig and Lawrie Moore-Walter.
This book presents easy-to-use tasks in order to promote a learner-centered language classroom. The photocopiable tasks can be used by teachers of varying levels of experience with the purpose of putting the learners in the driving seat of their own learning. Read more...
We will soon be publishing several new titles in this series, including:
Voicing Learning by Tim Murphey
A multi-voiced narrative to help educators understand the worth and procedures of ideal classmates, action logging, social testing, juggling, songlets, storytelling, and class publications through developing educational well-being, meaningfulness and positive psychology. Read more..
A multi-voiced narrative to help educators understand the worth and procedures of ideal classmates, action logging, social testing, juggling, songlets, storytelling, and class publications through developing educational well-being, meaningfulness and positive psychology. Read more..
Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence by Christian Jones
The book introduces the arguments for teaching conversation strategies as a means of developing communicative competence. It presents four different studies, each examining the teaching of conversation strategies in a different way. Read more…
The book introduces the arguments for teaching conversation strategies as a means of developing communicative competence. It presents four different studies, each examining the teaching of conversation strategies in a different way. Read more…
If you are interested in contributing to the Positive Pedagogical Praxis series, please see this call for proposals: https://www.candlinandmynard.com/calls.html
4. Others
Whose Autonomy? Voice and Agency in Language Learning.
Edited by Adelia Peña Clavel & Katherine Thornton
This collection of papers from the 2018 Independent Learning Association Conference held at Konan Women’s University, Kobe, Japan, includes a variety of voices, from both classroom and non-classroom contexts, including from learners themselves. The ebook is free to download. Read more…
Edited by Adelia Peña Clavel & Katherine Thornton
This collection of papers from the 2018 Independent Learning Association Conference held at Konan Women’s University, Kobe, Japan, includes a variety of voices, from both classroom and non-classroom contexts, including from learners themselves. The ebook is free to download. Read more…
Other general news
In 2020, we became members of Crossref which is a not-for-profit organisation that makes “research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.” We are gradually registering each book and chapter for a DOI number in order to make our authors’ work more accessible.
Two of our books became #1 best sellers in Japan immediately after their release dates:
- Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives From our Quarter edited by Diane Hawley Nagatomo, Kathleen A. Brown, and Melodie L. Cook, shot to #1 in the categories of ‘Politics and Social Sciences’ and ‘Women’s Studies’. It also featured in an article by Joyce Lau in The Times Higher Education
- Expatriate Families and Education in Japan: Experiences, Issues, and Challenges edited by Melodie Lorie Cook and Louise George Kittaka was #1 for several weeks in the category of ‘Parenting.’ Both of the editors were also interviewed by J.J. Walsh on the livestream talkshow Seeking Sustainability
We launched a new series edited by Arthur Stuart Firkins: Communicating Risk in Systems, Communities, Organisations, and Professions. The series seeks to enrich and explore the potential of RISK as an overarching theme informing applied linguistic and discourse analytical research. Read more...
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In the meantime, we would like to wish you good health, happiness, and success for 2021.
Kind regards,
The Candlin & Mynard Team