Jamie Hall's Home Page
Last updated: 2025/4/10

Self Introduction
I am a professor at the Department of English Education at the Iwate University Faculty of Education. My primary job is to prepare students in the faculty to become English teachers at junior/senior high schools or to teach English in elementary schools. I first came to Iwate University in 2003 after living in Hokkaido for four years. My hometown is Boston, Massachusetts. I ambitiously made this site about 10 years to provide links to my projects and classes, but, alas, from Facebook to twitter to blogs to academia and ResearchGate, there seem to be too many mediums out there for me to update.
岩手大学教育学部の 英語教育科の教授であるジェームズ・ ホールといいます。私は岩手大学で小学校・中学校・高校の教員になりたい学生に教えています。学生の授業を担当しております。 私は、平成15年に岩手大学にきました。その前、4年間北海道に住んでいました。私の出身はアメリカのボストン市であります。私は10年前、高い目標を持ってこのページを作成致しましたが、それ以来facebook、twitter、academia、researchgateが現れて閉まって、手が回らなくなりました。このページで、学生の学習に役立つリンクを貼ることにした。
Seminar and Class Blogs
Teacher Ed. Classes/ ePortfolios
- ETM ePortfolios from 2016 – 2025, Lesson Studies from 2019
(2016年~2023年の英語科教育法のポートフォリオアーカイブ、2019年度からの授業研究)This is a collection of student ePortfolios. Here, you can find out about students’ experiences on their teaching practicums as well as in the university classroom. You can also find Lesson Study pages from 2019 to present. - English Teaching License Course for Primary School(教育職員免許法認定講習(中学校二種免許(英語)), (Taken offline in October, 2024)
- Elementary School English Education Site
- Site for my 英語科教育法(小) lecture.
Study Abroad/ International Exchange Sites
- Thailand and Japan Collaborative Lesson Study Project
(タイ・日本共同授業研究事業)This is a website/ web application I have been working SUPER very on. It is an archive of English, Japanese, and match classes conducted by Iwate University Students in Thailand. - 岩手『Glocal』教育人材育成プログラム(Program for the Development of “Glocal” Leaders in Iwate)
Information about study abroad programs to North Central College (USA), Northwest University (China), National Kaohsiung Normal University (Taiwan) and others. The program to NCC is exclusively for English students. - Video Exchange Site between Fuzoku JHS in Iwate and the WN School: Every year, students from both schools make videos about one another’s school culture and share them with one another on this site.
Personal Links
Jamie’s Blog (Sorry, I have not updated this in a long time!)
You can see information about my research on the below sites.
Jamie at Research Gate
Jamie at Academia
Jamie’s Researcher Map Page
Academic Journal Links
- Applied Linguistics
- Anthropology and Education
Quarterly - ELT Journal
- FltMag
- JALT Conference Proceedings
- JALT Journal
- Journal of Asia TEFL
- Language Learning
- Language Policy
- Language Teacher
- Modern Language Journal
- Reflective Practice
- System
- Teaching and Teacher Education
- TESL Journal
- TESL-EJ Journal
- TESOL Quarterly
- World Englishes
Japanese Journal Links
- Cinii: 学術論文ナビゲータ
- JStage
- This site was supposed to take the place of Cinii, but they both seem to be online.
Academic Society Links
- Asia TEFL
- CELES: 中部地区英語教育学会
- IALLT: International Association of Language Learning and Technology
- JACET: 全国大学英語教育学会
- JACET Teacher Cognition Sig: 言語教師認知研究会
- JALT: 全国語学教育学会
- JALT Teacher Education
- JALT CALL
- JASELE: 全国英語教育学会
- JASELE Tohoku
- JES: 全国小学校英語教育学会
- LET:外国語教育メディア学会
- TESOL
- World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS)
Random English Education Links
Language learning
- IPA Phonetic Chart
- On-line IPA keyboard
- Enables you to put phonetic symbols into a document easily
- BYU Corpus
- One of the best concordance sites I have found
- Word Lists
- A great resource
- Compleat Lexical Tutor
- For researching vocasbulary
- Longman’s Learner’s Dictionary
- To me, this seems to have the most word information and is most user friendly.
- Macmillan’s Learner’s Dictionary
Language Curriculum Planning/ Information
- CEFR Resource Page
- Relevant resources for CEFR
- It has thousands of simplified newspaper articles with accompanying language learning activities.
- Word list for “We Can” and “Let’s try”
- Compiled by the Scholars of Hall
- Word list for JHS English textbooks
- A little outdated but I have yet to find another wordlist that compares all six textbooks.
University Links
Downloadable/ online Apps etc.
- Zotero
- This is a free reference software I stated to use instead of Mendeley.
- Mendeley
- Free bibliographical software. I liked it but it is not compatible with the Mac Catalina OS.
- FreeMind
- A mind map program I like to use.
- Quizlet
- I have been using this for in-class word practice.
- 伝助
- An online meeting scheduler, I use it all the time.
Global Education
- World Factbook
- Exhaustive statistics about each country.
- Cultural Crossing
- It explains verbal and nonverbal communication tendencies across countries.
- World Geography Quizzes
- I use this site often for class preparation when our topic is geography
- Country Etiquette Guides
- This is a cool site that gives an overview of customs and etiquette of various countries
- World Education Data
- This UNESCO page summarizes the education systems of most countries
- World Education Statistics
- Data from 2024 about how country education systems are meeting SDG goals.