Hello, and welcome to another monthly edition of JALT Talk, the announcements newsletter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching. We're running a couple of days late, but in this heat wave, can you blame us? JALT's highlight this month is the PanSIG Conference (July 8-10 in Nagano, with some online presentations), but there's a lot more going on in JALT, as you can see below.
In this issue:
Job listings
JALT receives a number of job advertisements each month. If you're looking for a new position, please check out our job posts on our JALT Publications site: https://jalt-publications.org/tlt/departments/career-development-corner/jobs
Announcing the 2023-2024 Board of Directors and Auditor
At the NPO JALT Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) on June 26th, 2022, the members of JALT ratified the results of the 2022 election. The newly-elected Board of Directors and Auditor will serve for two years, starting on January 1st, 2023.
We thank the outgoing BoD members (President Dawn Lucovich, Director of Membership Melodie Cook) and Auditor (Steve Brown) as well as those who are staying on, and we bid a warm welcome to those new to the BoD (Incoming President Clare Kaneko, Incoming Director of Membership Julie Kimura, and Incoming Director of Records Samantha Kawakami).
JALT 2022 Updates
Theme: Learning from Students, Educating Teachers--Research and Practice
Friday, November 11, 2022 to Monday, November 14, 2022 Fukuoka International Congress Center
48th Annual Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition
Registration will open for JALT2022 in July. Please check our social media and conference website in a week or so for details about this and other aspects of the conference.
In the meantime, please know that we fully expect child care options to be available at JALT2022 in Fukuoka, and we welcome the return of our Caretaker Program. Under the Caretaker Program (formerly known as the Guardian Program), if you require assistance to attend the conference, an appointed caretaker can attend with you for no additional cost. This includes parents with small children, attendees with mobility issues, and other situations in which your attendance would require someone to assist you. Please contact jco@jalt.org with any questions.
The JALT Research Grant Application Period is now open
Research Grant Proposal Deadline: September 30th
Each year, JALT awards up to three grants for a maximum of 100,000 yen each for research on language teaching in Japan. Only JALT members who have no outside funding sources to conduct research are eligible to apply. The grant aims to support language teachers in their professional development and encourage teachers to engage in classroom-based research. Grant applications are collected each summer and vetted by the JALT Research Grants Committee. Winners of the grants receive funding before the start of the following school year, during which they conduct their studies, provide quarterly reports, and receive guidance from the committee. After completing the research, winners are invited to give presentations on their projects at the JALT national conference and publish a paper in the Language Teacher. The deadline for proposals for projects starting in the 2023 school year is September 30th, 2022.
The research grant application form can be found here: https://forms.gle/jYhbU458qJMbJDxMA
5th CEGLOC Conference (online) Autonomous and Interactive Practices in Language Learning (December 3, 2022; call for contributions due July 31st)
Held by University of Tsukuba, JALT's LD SIG, and JALT's Ibaraki Chapter
Learner Development Collaborative Zone: Call for Contributions
Teacher Workshops: Discussions and Reflections about Learner Autonomy
In these workshops, teachers will share and discuss personal stories about learner autonomy in small groups.
Contribute to Session - Deadline 31/07/2022
Please submit a short personal story and 1-3 related questions for the group to discuss on Flipgrid in English (2-3 minutes).
Website: https://b24-n3d8tg.bitrix24.site/2022events/5thCEGLOC-Conference_Workshops/
ICLE SIG: 2nd My ICLE Share meeting July 2
The ICLE SIG will be hosting its 2nd My ICLE Share meeting on the topic "Becoming a Better Intercultural Observer" on July 2 (10:30-12:00) . This online event will be led by Stephen M. Ryan, who will discuss how we can prepare students to encounter the cultural Other. Please register through https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5fPB3OCcWq4GVfKQrZLe17eTUQ28WrIE_6pFY43Q_0BJB0g/viewform?usp=sf_link or visit our website (https://jalticle.org) for more information.---
Call for Manuscripts: Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL)
The call for manuscripts for the Critical Thinking SIG’s peer-reviewed journal, Critical Thinking and Language Learning (CTLL) is still open until the end of July. If you have a paper you’d like to be considered, please send it to our CTLL editor, Curtis Chu at editor@jaltcriticalthinking.org
https://www.jaltcriticalthinking.org/ctllabout/
(You don’t need to be a member of the CT SIG to publish. Well referenced papers on research, methodology, and theoretical methodologies are welcome.)
Call for Presentations: 6th CUE SIG ESP Symposium (due August 28)
CUE is proud to announce a call for papers for its semiannual ESP Symposium, scheduled as an online event for September 24, 2022. Details on registration will be announced at a later date. The ESP Symposium offers members and non-members of the CUE community an opportunity to display a poster on a topic related to English for Specific Purposes. Previous ones have been either pedagogical or action research in nature.
Posters will be stored online as PDF files for the audience to access, and during the online symposium, Zoom breakout rooms will allow presenters to show their posters similarly to an in-person poster show, with visitors coming and going as they please.
If you are interested in presenting, please send a 75-100 word abstract to the following Google Forms link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RhXpzSvosvX4k3U6ENxbdkJP-QhB9j8kXkYOepw7cJk/edit
Deadline is Sunday, August 28, at 23:59 pm Japan time.
Call for The Listening Conference 2022 - A Listening SIG/Kyoto Chapter event (deadline 25th July 2022)
The Listening SIG is delighted to announce their first ever event in affiliation with the JALT Kyoto Chapter. The Listening Conference 2022 will be a one-day face-to-face event taking place in Kyoto on Sunday 25th September. Our call for presenters is now open. We are looking for 20-minute presentations + 5-minute Q&A sessions on topics related to listening and teaching, pedagogy, assessment, and resources. We are also keen to hear from you if you have another research area in listening that you would like to share.
Please submit a 200-word abstract using the google form link below:
https://forms.gle/cQz5N2VpvZiT7ddZA
The call has been extended and now closes on 25th JulyY 2022. If you would like to find out more, then please contact us at listening@jalt.org
Conference Date: Sunday 25th September 2022
Time: 9am - 4pm
Location: Campus Plaza, Kyoto
Recent JALT Publications
For a full list of all of JALT's publications (including SIGs, chapters, and conferences), please see https://jalt.org/main/publications
JALT has released The Language Teacher (Issue 46.4), JALT's bi-monthly publication. The forward of the July/August 2022 issue of The Language Teacher is dedicated to Steve Cornwell, a good friend to many readers of TLT, who passed away in April. https://jalt.org/main/language-teacher-issue-464-july-2022 (JALT members must be logged in to see this content.)
JALT's Testing and Evaluation SIG has released Shiken: A Journal of Language Testing and Evaluation in Japan: 26.1. https://hosted.jalt.org/teval/node/113
JALT's Nagoya Chapter has released Nagoya JALT Journal: 3.1. https://sites.google.com/view/nagoyajaltpublication2020/the-jalt-nagoya-publication/the-nagoya-jalt-journal/issues/njj31?authuser=0
JALT's Vocabulary SIG has released VERB: 11.1. Vocabulary Education and Research Bulletin 11.1. https://jaltvocab.weebly.com/uploads/3/3/4/0/3340830/verb-vol11.1.pdf
JALT's Okinawa Chapter has released Trends in Language Teaching: Post-Conference Proceedings. Proceeding articles from the Okinawa JALT Trends in Language Teaching 2022 Conference held exclusively online. Okinawa JALT held its online Trends in Language Teaching 2022 (TLT2022) conference on Sunday, January. 30th, 2022. The theme for this TLT conference was the "Challenge of Change." The past couple of years have been challenging for educators around the world, both as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and due to the various secondary issues that have cropped up in the wake of the pandemic. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0B287M5B8
JALT's Mind, Brain, and Education SIG has released Mind BrainED Think Tank + Promoting Student and Teacher Well-Being for Better Language Learning: June 2022. This issue looks at how students’ and teachers’ well-being impacts their learning and teaching and is full of practical advice on ways to promote well-being in ourselves and our students, both in and outside of the classroom. 本号は、学習者と教師のウェルビーイング (幸福で肉体的、精神的、社会的に満たされた状態) が学習と教育にどのような影響を及ぼすかを検討し、この状態を教室の内外で促進するための具体的方法を紹介しています。https://www.mindbrained.org
Upcoming JALT Events
Event details: https://jalt.org/events
02 July 2022, 10:30am to 12:00pm
My ICLE Share #2: "Becoming a Better Intercultural Observer" (Online)
ICLE SIG
02 July 2022, 4:00pm
Listening: YoJALT Hybrid Event (In person & ZOOM)
Yokohama Chapter
03 July 2022, 10:20am to 11:30am
Tokyo State of the Chapter event with featured speaker Averil Coxhead (Vocabulary in instructional materials: Taking a good hard look) (Online)
Tokyo Chapter
03 July 2022, 1:00pm to 4:00pm (in person)
Michinoku English Education Summit (MEES) 2022
Iwate-Aomori Chapter
03 July 2022, 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Nagoya JALT Forum - Keynote speech by Dawn Lucovich followed by local presenters (in-person)
Nagoya Chapter
08-10 July 2022
JALT PanSIG 2022 Conference (in person, with some online)
http://pansig.org
16 July 2022, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
An online application for advancing quantitative data analysis (in person)
Kitakyushu Chapter
17 July 2022, 2:00pm
Reexamining and Refining a University English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Curriculum for Global ELT Needs (in person)
Gunma Chapter
24 July 2022, 2:00pm
Writing with the Help of Machine Translation: Exploring Ways to Enhance Learning and Hinder Misuse (Online)
Sendai Chapter
27 July 2022, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Multilingual Café OLE-SIG on Persian and English vocabulary (Online)
Other Language Educators SIG
29 July 2022, 7:00pm (Online)
JALT Zoom for Professional Development (ZPD) (Online)
Note we're starting an hour earlier. This ZPD will be followed by a Summer Social.
http://bit.ly/ZPDRSVP
31 July 2022, 10:30am to 11:30am
Becoming Ideal Classmates (BIC) Research: 10 years of Becomings (Online)
Tokyo Chapter
31 July 2022, 1:30pm to 4:00pm
Making words come alive by Readers Theatre (in person)
Toyohashi Chapter
31 July 2022, 7:00pm
PresentERs (July): A short talk about extensive reading from one of our members (Online)
Extensive Reading SIG
(followed by our LoungERs social event 'til late)
05 August 2022 - 07 August, 2022, 12:00am to 11:55pm (Online)
ERAW 2022
Extensive Reading Around the World 2022 (ERAW2022)
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Best regards,
Bill Pellowe
JALT Director of Public Relations
pr@jalt.org
http://jalt.org
I'm looking forward to seeing so many JALT people come to my home city of Fukuoka for the Annual JALT International Conference on November 11-14, 2022. https://jalt.org/conference