This summer issue features a description of peace education language activities on the theme of Okinawa, a report on a volunteer EFL program for orphans developed in Korea, ideas on using global issue pop songs in the foreign language classroom, and a report on an international peace congress held in the Hague. Other articles include conference reports on TESOL99 (New York) and RELC99 (Singapore), a summer homework project which has students interview senior citizens about environmental changes in their local communities, and a list of resource books to help you teach about the millennium. We hope you enjoy this newsletter issue and wish you good luck with your summer projects.

Contents #35

• Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals


• News from JALT and other language teaching organizations


• Conference Report: Conference Report: RELC99 (April 19 - 21 in Singapore)


• Conference Report: TESOL'99 (March 9 - 13 in New York, USA)


• Teaching Peace in Okinawa by Jerry Burks


• Environmental Education in Taiwan: The Mountain Program by Genevieve Wilson


• The Banyan Tree: Teaching EFL to Korean Orphans by Wade Nichols


• Learning from Elders about the Environment by Greg Goodmacher


• Global Issue Songs in the English Classroom by Sunao Shimizu


• Special Report: The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference


• Summer Reading: Resource books for teaching about the millennium


• New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues


• Global education materials and global education resource organizations

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