Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) refers to non-Japanese teachers hired to team-teach English along with Japanese teachers of English. They include teachers hired by the Japanese government through the Japan Exchange Teacher (JET) program(me). ALTs are also hired via local boards of education, ...
(2003) and Payr (2003) on offering a simple ideal type depiction of educational agents (Table 1). Educational agents can be parsed by role (teacher, teacher’s assistant) learning companion, peer tutor), by content expertise (expert to beginner), by emotional stance (from strict/...