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FYI: SBIC & Shadowing Lectures in early 2025

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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

January 18 (2025) Meeting (Motivation Day)

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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...

FYI: October 26 (2024) KGU-SPS-ELP Professional Development Conference

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Dr. Yu Kanazawa (Osaka University), the coordinator and the project leader of our SIG, delivered an invited keynote lecture at the 7th Annual Professional Development Conference of KGU-SPS-ELP in Sanda, Hyogo, on Saturday, October 26, 2024. For more information, see the following links (in Japanese): Plenary Lecture Resources (Kanazawa, 2024 October) - Researchmap Kanazawa, Y. (2024, October 26).  Epistemic emotion-inducing deep active learning: Theories and practical ideas  [Plenary lecture]. The 7th Annual Professional Development Conference of KGU-SPS-ELP. Sanda, Hyogo, Japan.

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...