LET-FMT-SIG & ELIPro Network (Formerly ELINET) Japan Branch

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...

#1  ■ 阪大（豊中）マルチ特任助教 公募中です ■  - 大阪大学 マルチリンガル教育センター 特任助教（常勤）  - TOEFL ITP実施業務、英語教育開発プロジェクト従事 など  - 採用予定日：2025 年 4 月 1 日  - 応募期限： 2025 年 2 月 3 日（月） 17:00 必着 （日本時間）  - 応募要項: https://cme.osaka-u.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250110-kobo-English_Center-for-Multilingual-Education.pdf  - JREC-IN: https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D125010505

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...

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.