LET-FMT-SIG & ELINET Japan

We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from around the world (Japan, Vietnam, UAE, Sweden, China, etc.) who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Curtis Edlin (Presenter #1 - top left); Hisako Yamashita (Presenter #2 - top center left); Dan Hooper (Participant - top center right); Elvita Wiasih (Participant - top right); Hisa Shibata (Participant - upper mid left); Hang Vo (Participant - upper mid center left); Tetsuro Takada (Participant - upper mid center right); Houyu Zhu (Participant - upper mid left); Zahra Zuhair Jelka (Participant - lower mid left); Chie Takeda (Participant - lower mid center left); Francia Arriagada (Participant - lower mid center right); Ryuichi Sato (Participant - lower mid right); Yu Kanazawa (Inviter; SIG Coordinator, Event Host - bottom center) . . . and many more camera-off participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

The 3rd Annual ELINET Conference was held at the University of Oxford on July 3rd–4th, 2025. 3rd Annual ELINET Conference - Transforming Education, Transforming Lives - ELINET Here is the poster of the ELINET Japan Branch for the conference. The poster of the ELINET Japan Branch for the 3rd Annual ELINET Conference held at the University of Oxford on July 3rd–4th, 2025. [image or embed] — ELINET Japan Branch ( @elinippon.bsky.social ) July 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM

We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from around the world who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Yu Kanazawa (Presenter #1, Inviter; SIG Coordinator, Event Host - top left); Chie Takeda (Presenter #2 - top center); Masahito Watanabe (Participant - top right); Hisa Shibata (Participant - mid left); Curtis Edlin (Participant - mid center); Noriko Nakanishi (Participant - mid right); Micaela Calvezere (Participant - bottom left); Houyu Zhu (Participant - bottom center); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat - bottom right). . . and many more camera-off participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は： https://let-kansai.org/w/research_group/?c=fundamental-theories-research...

Professor Emeritus Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University), the advisor of our SIG, is giving a lecture at a JACET Kansai event on June 21, 2025, one day before our public meeting ! More on the event (in Japanese) https://peatix.com/event/4387467/ JACET関西 2025年度第1回講演会開催のお知らせ 〇日時：2025年6月21日（土）　15:20～17:00 〇媒体：オンライン（Zoom）      参加費：JACET会員は無料、非会員は有料（500円） 〇プログラム： 第1発表　石川慎一郎（神戸大学教授）「コーパス言語学から英語教育へ」 第2発表　門田修平（関西学院大学名誉教授）　「心理言語学から英語教育へ」 両名対談　「言語学と言語教育をどうつないでいくか？」  

Starting April 2025, LET-FMT-SIG is frequently collaborating with the newly established ELINET Japan Branch, making our meetings more glocal! https://elinet.org.uk/elinet-branches/elinet-japan Lead Coordinator: Yu Kanazawa EME/GE Coordinator: Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo Coordinator: Louis Lafleur Coordinator: Shoko Otake Coordinator: Yukie Shinhara ELINET Japan Branch — Bluesky ELINET Japan Branch | Groups | LinkedIn ELINET Japan Branch | Facebook LET-FMT-SIG & ELINET Japan Branch / X

We would like to thank all the speakers and all the participants, both on-site and online! In the AI-cartoonized photo at the Chuo-Daigaku Meisei-Daigaku Station in Tokyo:  Jana Kamenická (Presenter #2), Prof. Shigenori Wakabayashi (Event Host), Yu Kanazawa (Presenter #1, Zoom Host) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報（中央大学 人文科学研究所 によるイベント情報紹介）は：  https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/research/institutes/culturalscience/event/2024/12/78095/ Date: Monday, March 31st, 2025 Time: 1:30PM ~ 4:40PM (Japan Standard Time (JST): UTC+9) Venue: Building 2, 4th Floor, Meeting Room 1, Chuo University Tama Campus, Tokyo (中央大学 多摩キャンパス 2号館 4階 研究所会議室1) Campus Information:  https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/visit/tama/ Google Maps:  https://maps.app.goo.g...

Dr. Yu Kanazawa (Osaka University), the coordinator and the project leader of our SIG, is delivering a YouTube Live invited talk at Active Inference Institute. Kanazawa, Y. (2025, March 15). Active Inference GuestStream ~ Yu Kanazawa (金澤 佑) : The free energy principle, language learning, and education [YouTube Live Invited Talk]. Active Inference Institute. https://youtu.be/BN2akPkfNxA Kindly note that the updated date is now March 14 or 15, 2025, depending on your location. 🌏 We appreciate your participation and look forward to seeing you then!  This talk is based on the following paper: Kanazawa, Y. (2024). The free energy principle and its implications to language learning and education: 4E cognition, prediction, accuracy-complexity trade-off, intrinsic motivation via epistemic emotions, 4 skills. Memoirs of the Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University (The University of Osaka), 1 , 135-157. https://doi.org/10.18910/94802 For more relevant resources, see also:  h...