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March 23 (2024) Symposium (P4ELT Day) 【哲学対話×英語教育】

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We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from around Japan and the world who contributed to a successful meeting! Let's keep on moving P4ELT forward! cf. #P4C (#哲学対話) × English Language Teaching (#英語教育) = #P4ELT (Philosophy for English Language Teaching/Teachers/Trainees) In the photo: Yu Kanazawa (Presenter #1, SIG Coordinator, Event Host - top left); Tatsuma Shirai (Presenter #2 - top middle); Koki Matsushima (Symposium chair - top right); Shogo Shimizu (Symposiast #1 - second row left); Takuya Morita (Symposiast #2 - second row middle); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat - second row right); Hisa Shibata (Participant - third row left); David Coulson (Participant - third row middle); Mizuho Nagato (Participant - third row right); Bertlinde Voegel (Participant - fourth row left); Nell Chen (Participant - fourth row right), . . . and many more participants w/o switched on camera! --------------------------------------------------

March 2 (2024) Conference Presentation (JELES-54)

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  Program: http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2024-03-01-02-e.html#program Registration Link:  http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/announcement/2024-03-01-02-e.html#registration We’re making a LET-FMT-SIG project-related presentation at the upcoming #JELES-54 Hybrid Conference hosted by National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu) on March 2, 2024!  - Semantic Familiarity Survey of Polysemous English Phrasal Verbs for Japanese Learners of English by Yu Kanazawa (Osaka U.), Tohru Matsuo (Osaka Jogakuin U.), Yukari Isobe (Kyoto Seika U.), Emiko Izumi (Kwansei Gakuin U.), Shoko Otake (Kobe Gakuin U.), Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin U.), Kaori Sugiura (Ritsumeikan U.), Miwa Morishita (Kobe Gakuin U.) #formulaic #sequence #phrase #phrasal #verb #semantic #familiarity #ELT #EFL #ESOL #EAL #ELL #TESOL #English #language #teaching #education #Hsinchu #Tokyo #LET-FMT-SIG #LET_FMT_SIG JELES-54 (2024): The 54th Annual Joint Meeting of JELES: English Language Education Society of Japan and Japanese

February 24 (2024) In-person Event 【SLA研究×認知心理学】語彙・文法学習における練習(Practice)研究の最前線

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We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants - as many as approximately 70 people from around Japan and even abroad - who contributed to a successful meeting! The Conference dinner at BALILax also welcomed as many as 30 participants, making the room exclusive use for us! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy New Year 2024! This is a fully in-person event to be held in Osaka on February 24th, 2024 - for the first time since the onset of the pandemic four years ago (language = Japanese). Although the lectures are in Japanese, there is no fixed language for the dinner gathering at a nice Balinese restaurant in Umeda, which English speakers are also welcome to join. Register for the dinner via  https:

FYI: January 12 (2024) Prof Kadota's Final Lecture

Professor Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University), who is also the advisor of our SIG, is delivering his final lecture on January 12, 2024. For more information, see  https://cslar.com/news/news_detail_35.html  (in Japanese).

FYI: December 14 (2023) OsakaU Public Lecture

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[Update on December 14, 2023]  Resources now available at:  https://sites.google.com/view/goldstreamyu2/lectures/FD_Lecture2023_12

November 19 (2023) International Meeting (Gamification Day)

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We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from around Japan and the world who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Louis Lafleur (Presentation #1 - top left); Liang Xu / Charlie (Presentation #2 - mid left); Yu Kanazawa (SIG Coordinator, Event Host - top right); Hiroyuki Obari (Frequent Participant - mid right); Hisa Shibata (Frequent Participant - bottom left); Nell Chen (Frequent Participant - bottom right) . . . and many more participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は: http://www.let-kansai.org/htdocs/index.php?page_id=74 Date: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 Time:  1:30PM ~ 4:30PM (Japan Standard Time (JST): UTC+9) Venue:  Zoom Online registration is needed. Free event

September 24 (2023) Meeting (Digitalizing ELT Day)

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We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from different regions of the world who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Steven H. Urueta (Presentation #1 - top left); Maëlys Salingre (Presentation #2 - top right); Yu Kanazawa (SIG Coordinator, Event Host, Inviter - mid left); Satoshi Kurokawa (Presentation #2 - mid right); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat Chair - bottom left); Hisa Shibata (Frequent Participant - bottom right) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は: http://www.let-kansai.org/htdocs/index.php?page_id=74 Date:  Sunday, September 24th, 2023 Time:  1:30PM ~ 4:30PM (Japan Standard Time (JST): UTC+9) Venue:  Zoom Online registration is needed. Free event - all welcome!!