Last weekend was the JACET/JALT First Joint conference in Nagoya at Chukyo University and I was fortunate enough to introduce the presentation put on by Mark, Steve, Jo-Jo, Philip and Colin on Collaborative learning...and it was GREAT! I have seen many many presentations and this one ranks among the best I have seen. It was a multi-media presentation well organized and with a very professional delivery. The topic/content fit the conference theme like...uh...a glove, the theme was collaboration and synergism in English Education.

Hell Everyone, I just did a short book review but my computer did not allow me to type in the author or publisher information so I will include that here.
Title: The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Authors/Editors: Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing; Malden, MA USA/ Oxford, UK
Year: 2003 First edition, 2005 Second edition
Paperback ISBN: ISBN-13:978-1-4051-3281-7

I just had a look and noticed you fellows got the advert up on your page...great and thanks a lot!