Message from the Coordinators
Dear CUE members,
Greetings from two CUE veterans who have joined forces to serve as
your new coordinating team. We hope you are all enjoying the freshness andexcitement of spring and the start of the academic year. As coordinators, weare looking forward to the challenges of helping CUE to inspire and support
you in achieving your professional goals, especially as we prepare for 2013,
CUE’s twentieth anniversary.
Over the last twenty years, one of the ways by which CUE has best served
its members is its journal. OnCUE Journal is now in its sixth year under this title,
but it has evolved over the past two decades from a simple A4 size photocopied
newsletter with the title OnCUE to the professionally designed and edited
academic journal you hold in your hand. With this issue we welcome the newcover design and CUE logo, both of which we hope meet with your approval.
As our journal continues to evolve in the capable hands of editor Glen Hill
and the rest of the OCJ team, we hope it continues to serve as a forum forsharing practical, theoretical, and research ideas amongst CUE members andthe wider tertiary educators’ community within Japan and beyond.
Another way that CUE has strived to inspire and support its members isthrough its regular conferences. The independent conference we held in Junelast year, “Foreign Language Motivation in Japan” at Toyo University, was agreat success with an attendance of nearly 200. We also co-sponsored the2011 PanSIG conference, the Peace as a Global Language conference andthe Nakasendo conference. We continue the sponsorship of conferences thisyear, with the PanSIG conference on June 16 and 17 at Hiroshima University;and a free “CUE ESP Symposium – Kansai” on September 8 at the Nara
Institute of Science and Technology; and a 2000-yen one-day workshop“Qualitative Research: Getting Started” on December 1 with Naoko Aoki andRobert Croker at Chukyo University in Nagoya. At the JALT International
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Conference on October 12–15 in Hamamatsu, CUE is sponsoring Garold
Murray’s Featured Speaker Workshop “Identity and Motivation: Imagining aDifference”, and organizing a forum with the TED SIG titled “What makes
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forum, please see our website for more information and how to apply.
One of our main goals for the coming year is to further enhance
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this out, we’ve made a short survey to collect members’ opinions. It will takeyou less than three minutes to complete, but the information you give us will beextremely helpful as we make decisions about where CUE should be headed,
so if you haven’t already, please take a moment and visit the CUE website andclick on the link to the survey. We are eager for input from members: yourideas for events and invited speakers, and people to contribute ideas, time,
photographs, skills in proofreading and editing and any other skill that canhelp enhance communication and collaboration among members within ourdynamic group.
There is a lot happening in CUE, and this is going to be an exciting yearof redirection for our SIG. We look forward to working to improve CUE
together.

Regards,Dexter Da Silva
Juanita Heigham
CUE Co-coordinators5