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January 18 (2025) Meeting (Motivation Day)

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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 registration is needed. Free event - all welcome!! Please use the following link to register: https://forms.gle/nfnjjznXn1MSWSj48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation #1 Unpacking motivation: The influence of negative identity on Japanese students’ willingness to communicate in English  by  Matthew Baumgartner  (Kansai University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation #2 Flubaroo - A Google extension that can motivate when scoring tests    by  Mary Chang  (Kwansei Gakuin University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Upcoming Meeting Information) March 31, 2025 -  Emotion Day №4

November 17 (2024) Meeting (Vocabulary Day №3)  語彙学習

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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 ...

FYI: September 9 (2024) Invited Lecture in Zlín

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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...

September 23 (2024) Meeting (Linguistics, Psychology, ELT)

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We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants from different places in Japan and the world (e.g., Czechia, Kalimantan) who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Maëlys Salingre & Satoshi Kurokawa (Presenters #1 - top left); Shoko Otake (SIG Secretariat - Presenter #2 - top center); Yu Kanazawa (Inviter; SIG Coordinator, Event Host, Presenter #2 - top right); Abraham (Participant - mid left); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat - mid center); Jana Kamenická (Participant - mid left); Chie Takeda (Participant - bottom left); Hitomi Kwon (Participant - bottom right)  . . . and many more non-camera participants! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は: https://let-kansai.org/w/rese...

July 14 (2024) Meeting (AI 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 (e.g., Taiwan, Vietnam) who contributed to a successful meeting!  In the photo: Michael Hofmeyr (Presenter #1 - top left); Lucas Dickerson (Presenter #2 - top center); Louis Lafleur (Inviter, SIG Secretariat - top right); Nell Chen (Participant - mid left); Shizuka Sakurai (Participant - mid center); Sachiko Nakamura (Participant - mid right); Tetsuro Takada (Participant - bottom left); Shinsuke Yoshida (Participant - bottom center); Yu Kanazawa (SIG Coordinator, Event Host - bottom right)  . . . and many more participants w/o switched on camera! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-event announcement below ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 日本語の情報は: https://let-kansai.org/w/r...

FYI: June 22 (2024) J-SLA 2024 Conference

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Professor Emeritus Shuhei Kadota (Kwansei Gakuin University), the advisor of our SIG, and Dr. Yu Kanazawa (Osaka University), the coordinator and the project leader of our SIG, are presenting at the Day 1 invited symposium of the 24th International Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Acquisition (J-SLA2024)! https://www.j-sla.org/events/j-sla2024 Resource page ( https://researchmap.jp/yu-kanazawa/symposium2024-06 ) to: Kanazawa, Y. (2024, June 22-23). Emotoin and second language retentional cognition. In S. Kadota (chair), T he Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Systems Underlying Second Language Acquisition: Integrating Three Brain Networks . [Invited symposium]. The 24th International Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Acquisition (J-SLA2024), Osaka, Japan.

FYI: New Book in June 2024

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Some of the project members of our SIG are involved in the book recently published on June 10, 2024! Kawasaki, M., Nakanishi, H., Nishimura, H., & Miki, K. (Eds.). (2024). Daini gengo shutoku kenkyu ga tokiakasu gaikokugo no gakushu [Research on second language acquisition elucidates foreign language learning]. Kurosio Shuppan.  https://www.9640.jp/book_view/?978 川﨑眞理子、中西弘、西村浩子、三木浩平 (編) (2024).『第二言語習得研究が解き明かす外国語の学習』くろしお出版.  2024年6月10日新刊の第5章の執筆を担当しました! 金澤佑(2024)「語彙学習のメカニズム」川崎眞理子、中西弘、西村浩子、三木浩平(編)『第二言語習得研究が解き明かす外国語の学習』(pp. 63-77)くろしお出版. @kurosiopb https://t.co/eeMut2GHi7 pic.twitter.com/vly7p8vylU — Yu Kanazawa (@knzw783) June 10, 2024   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yu Kanazawa (@yu.kanazawa.goldstream)