(Bob Jones, Ena City, Japan)
EFL-Related Publications and Presentations

Books

2009	· Tell Me Your Stories, - re-published as international version by Macmillan, and retitled as Interact: Conversational Storytelling in English.
2008	Tell Me Your Stories: Storytelling in Conversational English, Tokyo: Macmillan Languagehouse. (Co-authored with David Coulson).
1986	Black Magic and Other Stories. Singapore: Heinemann Asian Readers. The Ghost on the Beach and Other Stories. Singapore: Heinemann Asian Readers.

Published Articles

2009	Coulson, D. and Jones, B. (2009). An approach to conversational storytelling in the classroom. In A. M. Stoke (Ed.), JALT2008 Conference Proceedings. Tokyo: JALT. 449-438
2007	From newspaper account to conversational story. The Language Teacher, 31/6: 22-23
2003	Let's go shopping. Snakes and Ladders. Summer Edition: 26-27.
2002	We used to do this and we'd also do that: a discourse pattern for teaching the reminiscence story. The Language Teacher, 26/2: 3-7.
2001	A consciousness-raising approach to the teaching of conversational storytelling skills. ELT Journal, 55/2: 155-163. Machiko's breakthrough: a magic classroom moment. Humanising Language Teaching, 3/1. A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter. English Teaching professional . 19: 11. Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. In R. Long, K. Lane, M. Swanson, G. van Troyer (eds.) The Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching, October 2000. 269-273.
2000	Helping your students to listen with bilingual TV. The Language Teacher, 24/7: 32-33. First enquiry. ETJ Journal. 1/1: 25.
1995	Learning to listen with bilingual TV. Ishikawa no Tamago, 23: 4-5. Wacky restaurants. In I. Gleadall and J. Johnson (eds.) Our Share. Tokyo: Japan Association for Language Teachers, Material Writers National Special Interest Group.
1992	Sunshine English Course fails to shine. Daily Yomiuri, February 6, 1992.
1990	Straight out of Dickens. Practical English Teaching, 11/2: 24-25.

Presentations

2008	Conversational Storytelling in the Classroom. (Joint presentation with David Coulson, 34th JALT Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning, Tokyo, November 2008) Stories that Don't Begin with "Once Upon a Time." (JALT Gifu Chapter, September 2008) Bingo and Other Games for Spelling, Grammar and Vocabulary (ETJ Aichi, July 2008)
2007	Stories that Don't Begin with "Once Upon a Time." (Chubu ETJ English Language Teaching Expo, Nagoya, October 2007) Interactive Conversation - some classroom techniques suitable for junior high school to adult. (ETJ Aichi, September 2007)
2005	A Bunch of Activities for Oral Interaction. (Chubu ETJ English Language Teaching EXPO, Nagoya, November 2005)
2004	Bingo Activities to Help with Spelling, Grammar and Vocabulary. (Chubu ETJ English Language Teaching EXPO, Nagoya, October 2004.
2003	Let's Take the Kids Shopping! (Chubu ETJ English Language Teaching EXPO, Nagoya, October 2003.
2002	Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. (JALT Toyohashi Chapter, July 2002)
2001	Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. (JALT Kanazawa Chapter, June 2001) Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. (JALT Gifu Chapter, May 2001. Given as part of a colloquium on storytelling alongside presentations by Sean Gaffney and Paul Doyon)
2000	Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. (JALT Annual International Conference on Language Teaching / Learning and Educational Materials. Shizuoka, November 2000) Conversational Storytelling in the Language Class. (JALT Nagoya Chapter, June 2000)
1999	Teaching Oral Narrative Skills. (JALT Annual International Conference on Language Teaching/Learning and Educational Materials, Maebashi, October 1999).