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 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...

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