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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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)

We would like to thank all the speakers for the wonderful presentations, and all the participants who contributed to a successful meeting! Further investigation and application of affective input enhancement - let's keep it up! In the photo: Ren Oyama (Presenter #1 - top left); Yu Kanazawa (Presenter #2, SIG Coordinator, Event Host - top right); Kina Yokoyama (Participant - second row left); Naoki Katanaya (Participant - second row right); Louis Lafleur (SIG Secretariat - bottom) . . . 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/research_group/?c=fundamental-theories-research Date: Sunday, May 26th, 2024  - the day after the LET Kansai Conference Spring 2024 Time: 1:30PM ~...

Dr. Yu Kanazawa (Osaka University), the coordinator and the project leader of our SIG, is delivering an invited keynote lecture at the LET Kansai Conference in Kobe on Saturday, May 25, 2024. For more information, see the following links (in Japanese): https://let-kansai.org/w/notice-from-secretar/notice-from-secretar-7086/ https://let-kansai-2024-spring.peatix.com/ Keynote Lecture Resources (Kanazawa, 2024 May) - Researchmap Conference Dinner Registration The day after the LET Kansai Conference is our public Zoom meeting . Social Links Ready for the keynote lecture! @LET_Kansai Link for the resources: https://t.co/bEpR1p8TDv https://t.co/W7yKWbDJeJ pic.twitter.com/vtkpoailDz — Yu Kanazawa (@knzw783) May 25, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yu Kanazawa (@yu.kanazawa.goldstream)   金澤先生の基調講演 pic.twitter.com/vu2SLDPJb9 — MizumotoAtsushi (@MizumotoAtsushi) May 25, 2024

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! --------------------------------------------------...

  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...

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  ht...