Annual Conference

We are happy to announce that the call for proposals for Teacher Journeys 2021is now open! The deadline for submissions is 8/15.

Over the past ten years, the Teacher Journeys conference has traveled around Japan to highlight teacher narratives. This year, following the model of Teacher Journeys 2020, in place of a face-to-face conference the Teacher Development SIG will curate a collection of videos sharing reflections on teaching in these new circumstances.

These videos will be shared on the conference site from late summer to early fall. We would also like to include a written version of all accepted presentations in a special issue of the TD SIG's journal Explorations in Teacher Development, to appear in 2022.

The theme of the conference is Intercultural Communication in Language Education and its purpose is to promote the core values of the ICLE SIG: exchange ideas and share best practices for incorporating culture in various settings, thereby, bringing practice and research together. Presenters will share diverse methods, approaches and experiences related to intercultural communication ranging from practical and pedagogical activities to research oriented presentations focusing on raising intercultural awareness and enhancing cultural understanding.

2021 JALT School Owners’ Conference—June 27th, 10:00-17:00

The JALT School Owners’ Special Interest Group would like to invite everyone to attend our 2021 Conference, online. If you are a school owner or thinking of opening a school, then you don’t want to miss this online conference.

We will have six insightful sessions starting from 10:00 on June27th.
Session 1: Lessons from the Pandemic
Session 2: What is Lean Management?
Lunch: Community chatroom
Session 3: How to make better classrooms for the community
Session 4: How to spot and help Neurodiverse students
Session 5: Why and how to transition an eikaiwa to an
international preschool
Session 6: Panel discussion
JALT School Owners’ Annual General Meeting. –Everyone is welcome!

The sessions will be recorded and made available to everyone that registers for the event.

Cost:
SO SIG member: *FREE
JALT member: *¥2,500
Other: ¥3,500
*Sign-up after 6/24 will be ¥3,500

To learn more and sign-up, go to: https://2021somc.eventzil.la/
If you have any questions, contact us at: SO@jalt.org

We have a small number of scholarships available for anyone struggling to pay the admission price. To receive a scholarship, contact us at so@jalt.org and we will make sure you are able to attend.

We look forward to seeing everyone live on June 27th!

We will hold our 12th All-Shikoku JALT Conference online this year using Zoom. The Conference will be co-sponsored by East Shikoku JALT, Matsuyama JALT and Oxford University Press. David Barker, Director of the Gifu University English Center. will to be our keynote speaker, and our OUP featured speaker will be Scott Douglas from UBC's Okanagan School of Education in Canada. Concurrent sessions of 30-minute presentations/short papers (20 minutes + 10 min Q&A) will follow the Keynote and OUP presentations. The full slate of presentations can be found in our Conference Program. Pre-register at the link below. Prior to the Conference, a Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registered. Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:00-15:30 (time may change slightly for scheduling purposes) Online (Zoom, registration details to be found on the program)

Free for JALT Members; 1,000 yen for non-members

Registration link: 12th Shikoku JALT Conference https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTv9M6JQQgKkwO_kCW8nZhb2mxv0JI...

For more details, check out the program:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lH9taApdqupw96CSIlliNdvXK8kbm4vI/view

This year, in the interest of better serving our geographically diverse LLL-SIG membership (and also in the interest of keeping you safe) we decided to hold our annual LLL-SIG Mini-Conference online. It will take place online for LLL-SIG members although the event itself is hybrid as it overlaps with part of annual faculty development sessions at Aoyama Gakuin University (AGU). AGU teachers will be joining either F2F or online and LLL-SIG members can participate online. 

Details:

Event name: JALT’s Lifelong Language Learning (LLL) SIG Mini Conference 2021: Lifelong Learning Through an Annual Faculty Development Event

Date: April 3, 2021

Time: From 10 AM - 12:15 PM

Place: Through Zoom (Contact Joseph Dias at giuseppedias@gmail.com to request an invitation to join on Zoom. The Zoom room details will be sent on the evening of April 2nd. Please be sure to set your profile on Zoom so that you can be identified by name as only those participants whose identity we can confirm will be allowed entrance.)

See the attached PDF for full details of the program, including the titles of presentations and bios of the 8 speakers. 

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Joseph Dias

LLL SIG Coordinator & Aoyama Gakuin University (English Department's) Integrated English Program Co-coordinator

Further Details
For the last 28 years, the Integrated English Program (under the auspices of Aoyama Gakuin University’s English Department) has held annual faculty development events for new and continuing teachers in early April. The program’s coordinators, senior teachers, and those newer to the program, share the responsibility of presenting on panels and giving workshops. It has been a way for teachers to share their expertise while gaining knowledge and inspiration from their peers. Occasionally, special guests—from both inside and outside the university—are invited to the event as speakers to offer broader perspectives. These guest speakers have included representatives from TELL (an English Lifeline and community outreach organization), the campus’ Career Center, and the Student Counseling Center. One of the main benefits of this event is the collegiality it fosters. By sharing teaching experiences, stories from the classrooms’ front lines, and refreshments, teachers are revitalized so they can face the new academic year with a positive frame of mind.

We decided to offer a glimpse into this annual event by opening up three of this year’s panel discussions to participants in the Lifelong Language Learning SIG’s Mini Conference. In other words, the Mini Conference will co-occur with the morning portion of the faculty development event, three panel discussions made up of eight speakers.

JALT2018 is JALT's 44th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. Join us for Technology in Teaching Workshops on Friday, November 23, 2018 and stay on for the main conference from Saturday, November 24 to Monday, November 26, 2018. There will be sessions (presentations, workshops, roundtables, forums) held by hundred of speakers, including plenary speaker Rebecca Oxford. The deadline for vetted submissions and SIG forums is February 12, 2018.

The 43rd Annual JALT International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition is one of the premier professional development events for language educators worldwide. It will be held at the Tsukuba International Conference Center (Epochal Tsukuba) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

JALT2015: 41st Annual International Conference on Language
Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition
Friday 20th to Monday 23rd November, 2015
Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center "GRANSHIP"Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Get full-color preview brochures:1. Theme and Main Speakers2. Registration, JALT Junior, and Travel3. Invited Speakers, Film, and Getting around Shizuoka
Full conference handbook

Call for Participation – Focus on the Learner

The theme of the conference is an opportunity for participants to reflect on our current knowledge and practices as learners, as teachers of learners and as designers of environments for learning. We would like to invite you, to start (or continue) that process of reflection now to make the conference meaningful for you by pondering upon:
How are students approaching learning differently?
Where do their motivations come from?
What have you learnt as a teacher during and after each class?
What are students learning that is not being consciously taught?
How do students feel during different stages of the class or learning process?
By reflecting on learners and their learning process, we open up to new ideas, theory, research and practices. Please join us at JALT 2015 to continue this process of reflection and transformation of ourselves as learners and as teachers.
- Conference co-chairs: Kay Irie and Dexter Da Silva
学会参加のご案内：JALT 2015 ~ 学習者に焦点をあてて~
学会参加のご案内：JALT 2015 ~ 学習者に焦点をあてて~
本年度のテーマは、参加者が学習者として、学習者を指導する教員として、または、その学習環境作りに携わる者として、現在の学習者に関する知識と実践を振り返る機会を共有することにあります。学会参加をより有意義にするために、いくつかの質問を自分に投げかけることで、その振り返りのプロセスを「今」から、静岡に来る前から、初めてみませんか？
学習者たちの学習に対するアプローチにはどのような違いがありますか？
学習者たちのモチベーションはどこから来ていますか？
教員として、あなた自身、授業中、そして授業後に何を学びましたか？
生徒たちはあなたが意図したこと以外に何を学んだと思いますか？
学生たちは授業や学びのプロセスの各々の段階で何をどう感じていると思いますか？
学習者とその学びのプロセスを改めて見つめることで、新しい考え、理論、研究、そして実践を受け入れることができるのです。そしてJALT 2015で、教員として、学習者としての振り返りと自己変革 のプロセスを分かち合いましょう。
- Conference co-chairs: 入江 恵 ; デクスタ ダ シルバ
Call for Papers (Closed)
Focus on the Learner
Ultimately, language education revolves around the learner and learning. Our teaching philosophies, metaphors, and practices are based on our implicit or explicit theories of learning and learners' characteristics and needs. It is a basic principle, but is often forgotten in our busy day-to-day lives. At JALT’s 41st international conference we will take the opportunity to focus our attention on and to celebrate what we have learned and wish to learn about, with, and as learners. We welcome submissions for innovative presentations that reflect the vast possibilities within and surrounding this topic.
- Conference co-chairs: Kay Irie and Dexter Da Silva
JALT2015: 学習者に焦点をあてて
言語教育は、つきつめて言えば、学習者とその学びのためにあります。そして自覚の有無に関わらず、私たち教育者の学びや学習者に対する考え方が、その根幹となっています。日々の忙しさの中で、この基本的なことが忘れられていることも少なくありません。第4１回全国語学教育学会年次国際大会では、改めて学習者に目をむけ、私たちが今までに学習者について、そして学習者として学んだこと・学びたいことに敬意を表したいと思います。この限りない可能性を秘めたテーマに対し、皆様からのクリエティブな発表の応募をお待ちしております。
- Conference co-chairs: 入江 恵 ; デクスタ ダ シルバ

JALT2014: Conversations Across Borders
40th Annual International Conference on Language
Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition
Friday, 21 November - Monday, 24 November 2014
Tsukuba International Congress Center (Epochal Tsukuba)
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
*** Registration Information ***
*** Complete Conference Handbook Download ***

Conversations Across Borders
Language learning and language teaching carry us across all sorts of borders: national, cultural, disciplinary, psychological, and of course linguistic. JALT’s 40th annual conference will explore this phenomenon with its theme, “Conversations Across Borders."- Conference co-chairs: Peter Hourdequin and Diane Nagatomo
Plenary Speakers
Thomas Farrell - Professor, Brock University
Bill Harley - Grammy-award winning musician, story-teller, and author - Sponsored by Yokohama JALT
Claire Kramsch - Professor, UC Berkeley
Kimie Takahashi - Lecturer, Graduate School of English, Assumption University - Visiting Associate Professor, International Christian University. Update: JALT regrets to announce that Kimie Takahashi has had to cancel her appearance at JALT2014.
Additional Invited Plenary Speaker
Gerry Yokota – Professor, Osaka University
Featured Speakers
Andrew Boon - Sponsored by National Geographic Learning | Cengage Learning
Miles Craven - Sponsored by the Materials Writers Special Interest Group
Lesley Ito - Sponsored by Atama-ii Books
Sonthida Keyuravong - Balsamo Asian Scholar
Jeanne McCarten - Sponsored by Cambridge University Press
Leslie Turpin - Sponsored by SIT Graduate Institute
Crayton Walker - Sponsored by University of Birmingham
Special thanks to Tsukuba Tourist and Convention Association
We are pleased to announce we are able to held the conference in Tsukuba with the aid and kind assistance of the Tsukuba Tourist Convention Association.
Special Pre-conference Issue of The Language Teacher
A special non-password-protected excerpt of our publication, The Language Teacher, is available for download. This PDF includes articles from and interviews with our Plenary and Featured Speakers as a preview of their presentations.
Conference Preview and Handbook
Download this shorter PDF (10MB) for site maps, access information, hotel details, schedule overview, and much more in a handy size for your iPad or other tablet. Conference Preview PDF
Download the complete Conference Handbook for information about all presentations, speakers, events, and more.
Access from Tsukuba Express
Getting to Tsukuba
EPOCHAL Tsukuba Access
Map of Surrounding Area
Exit the Tsukuba Express. Go up the escalator at Exit A3. Turn right at a ticket office, then go up the steps. Go straight for approximately 800m.

39th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition Kobe Convention Center, Portopia, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan October 25th - 28th, 2013

Learning is a Lifelong Voyage

We start to learn even before we are born and continue learning throughout our lives. It’s an important part of the life voyage of each human being. Every one of us has learning stories—our own stories as well as the ones we contribute to as friends, partners, parents, and teachers. What are your learning stories? What are your learning memories? Bring them to Kobe in 2013 and share them with your colleagues. JALT2013 promises to be a captivating port on your lifetime learning voyage.
Registration
Registration for the conference is in Kobe International Exhibition Hall 3. Turn left after you exit the turnstiles at Shimin Hiroba. It is the large building diagonally to your left as you exit the station. Directions: http://kobe-cc.jp/english/tenji/index.html
Onsite registration will be offered at the conference site from 25 October, 4:00-7:00 pm, and throughout the remaining days of the conference. VISA and MasterCard will be accepted. Please bring your membership card to register at member rates. See the conference fees page for registration option details.
Plenary Speakers
Penny Ur (Sponsored by Cambridge University Press)
Caroline Linse (Sponsored by JALT Junior)
Kristin Sherman (Sponsored by Oxford University Press)
Keith Folse (Sponsored by National Geographic Learning | Cengage Learning)
Featured Speakers
Charles Browne (Cambridge University Press)
Christine Pearson Casanave (CUE SIG )
Crayton Walker (University of Birmingham)
Curtis Kelly (Nova Southeastern University )
Daniela Papi (GILE SIG)
David Harrington (Language Solutions Japan )
Elka Todeva (Osaka JALT/School for International Training)
Grant Trew (Oxford University Press )
Scott Thornbury (Kobe JALT/The New School)
Conference Preview
Download a 36 page full-color Conference Preview for your tablet or laptop. It includes, maps, venue information, hotels, schedule, extended abstracts for all the great plenaries and workshops, and great photos from JALT2012. [13 MB PDF, click here to download]
You can also get a head start on the conference by downloading the complete conference handbook, again in PDF format. You can find the handbook here.