LET-FMT-SIG: Fundamental Theory SIG, Japan Association for Language Education & Technology

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...

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Professor Emeritus Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University), the advisor of our SIG, is giving lectures on multiple occasions about Social Brain Interactional Competence (SBIC) and/or shadowing in early 2025! January 24th:  https://ele.modernlc.tsukuba.ac.jp/page/page000075.html January 25th:  https://toraiz-cnn-event01.peatix.com/ February 22nd: https://spice.kotoba-kobo.jp/index.php/about/   March 8th: https://kate-jp.sakura.ne.jp/ March 28th: TBA cf. 門田修平 (2023). 『社会脳インタラクションを活かした英語の学習・教育やり取りの力を伸ばす』大修館書店.  https://www.taishukan.co.jp/book/b629727.html

We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants inside and outside Kansai who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Matt Baumgartner (Presenters #1 - top left); Mary Chang (Presenter #2 - top right); Hisa Shibata (Participant - mid left); Chie Takeda (Participant - mid right); Louis Lafleur (Inviter, SIG Secretariat - bottom left); Yu Kanazawa (Inviter; SIG Coordinator, Event Host - bottom right) . . . and many more non-camera participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は： https://let-kansai.org/w/research_group/?c=fundamental-theories-research Date:  Saturday, January 18th, 2025 Time:  1:30PM ~ 4:30PM (Japan Standard Time (JST): UTC+9) Venue:  Zoom Online reg...

We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from different regions in Japan (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku) who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Kentaro Suzuki (Presenters #1 - top left); Gaia Oikawa (Presenter #2 - top right); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat - mid left); Takumi Uchihara (Participant, Presenter #2's supervisor - mid right); Chie Takeda (bottom left); Yu Kanazawa (Inviter; SIG Coordinator, Event Host - bottom right) . . . and many more non-camera participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は： https://let-kansai.org/w/research_group/?c=fundamental-theories-research   Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2024 Time: 1:30PM ~ 4:30PM (Japan ...

Dr. Yu Kanazawa (Osaka University), the coordinator and the project leader of our SIG, delivered an invited lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Kanazawa, Y. (2024, září 9). Emotion-Involved Processing and Foreign Language Learning [Invited lecture]. Fakulta humanitních studií - Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, Česko. https://fhs.utb.cz/aktuality-akce/involved-processing-and-foreign-language-learning-by-kanazawa/ From the website: 26. srpna 2024 Zveme tímto všechny akademické pracovníky a studující na zajímavou přednášku o motivaci ke studiu anglického jazyka. Přednášející, Yu Kanazawa, PhD, je docentem na Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Japonsko a koordinátorem LET-FMT-SIG. Mezi jeho výzkumné zájmy patří například nevědomé emoce v učení cizích jazyků (Micro-Level Emotion), hluboké aktivní učení pedagogiky ELT (English Learning Teaching) ELT, filozofie pro výuku anglického jazyka P4ELT (Philosophy for English Language Teaching/Teachers/T...