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9:30 AMJT"Mastering STEM vocabulary": Innovative onli…
9:30
AM-9:55 AM for ESL learners
e resources
Vocabulary

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This presentation session reviews a Hong Kong University Grants
Committee (UGC)-funded language enhancement project aimed atdeveloping online resources to assist ESL students in learning technical …
vocabulary items associated with STEM. In recent years, the necessity of
producing such resources has been acknowledged, since acquiring subject
knowledge and improving professional communication require a thoroughgrasp of specialized lexicons (Woodward-Kron, 2008; Knoch, 2014).
Frankie Har
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A Survey on Discriminatory Practices in TESO…
9:30
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Global Issues in La…

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The past few years have seen a signiccant paradigm shift in Western
society whereby diversity and inclusion have garnered signiccant andsustained attention from most major industries (e.g., big tech, real estate,…
education, healthcare, etc.). Reeecting the global nature of English
education, the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Dale
Jeffery
J. Leegoal of
Organization
launched
an initiative in June 2021Bradford
with the stated
Fukui
Universityof…
Professor;
Directorof…theincreasing DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) across all aspects
Fukui
Universityof …andceld. To investigate the current state of affairs, thisstudy
surveyedcollected the personal stories of 101 present and former instructors,
representing a wide range of genders, ages, working locations, andethnicities (White, 53.5%; Asian, 19.8%; Black, 13.9%, and cve othercategories). Experiences were found to vary widely, with 47.4% indicating
they
felt some formaof modeldiscrimination
gender-, age-,Task-base…
accent-based,
Developing
for(e.g.,a Framed
among others) while applying for TESOL jobs, and 60.4% reporting
9:30
AM-9:55 AM
Language
Teaching
approachdiscrimination
oncein the job. Even
further, we asked participants toreeecton howthese experiences ineuenced how they felt about
Task-Based
Learnin…
themselves, the TESOL industry, and their own personal teaching practices.
With this
we hope that sharing these stories from our peers
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TBL
will
elucidate
not
only
the
current
stateof the celd,
but also
inspire in
Research in Process drama(PD) asa language
teaching
approachdiscussion
about how, together,
we can movecloser students,
towards theideals put
Japan has established
its effectivenessin engaging
particularly
forth
byconcdence
TESOL.
lackingor motivation (Donnery, 2013). However, previous …
research (Murray, Reis-Jorge, & Regan, 2021) indicates that potential
practitioners are deterred by the word 'drama' and perceptions that the
Murray and drastically different from more traditional
approach isAyacomplicatedUniversity
approaches.Meijo
In actuality,
PD has many similarities to Task-based Language
Teaching (TBLT) in its structure and goals. However, developers of PD as alanguage teaching approach have not made explicit methods of new
language or grammar introduction nor language correction, often
discouraging correction and focusing on teaching new language points.
While over-focus on accuracy hinders the spontaneous use of language

Emotional Labor of Foreign EFL Teachers in J…

and engagement, essential aspects of PD, a more explicit structure, and9:30
AM-9:55
AM
discussionofUniversities
the above-mentioned aspects of teaching are needed topaneseencourage wider use. This presentation introduces the results of a study
Teacher Developm…
on real classroom practices of language teachers utilizing PD, focusing on
newlanguage
introduction and language correction. A potential model for
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Emotional labor has been linked to stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction.
Research on emotional labor in the Japanese context has largely focusedon general education teachers (e.g. Kimura, 2010) and eikaiwa or English …
conversation teachers (e.g. Taylor, 2020). This study aims to add to theliterature by focusing on the emotional labor of foreign EFL teachers in the
Rapunzeluniversity context.
TheTomac…
objectives of this research include understanding
University
teachers' Soka
emotional
experiences and emotional display rules, exploring
the factors which contribute to emotional labor, and analyzing which
emotional labor strategies are used and/or preferred by teachers. The
study follows an explanatory sequential research design. The Emotional
Labor of Teaching Scale (Brown, 2011) was utilized in the quantitative
phase of the study, and semi-structured interview questions were used intheData wasgathered fromFree
35 teachers
from various
It isqualitative
okay phase.
to makemistakes!
writing:
lang…
universities and tertiary-level educational institutions. The participants'
9:30
AM-9:55
AM
uage
pro!ciency
and statisticalfeelings
about
studying
responses
were analyzed throughanalysesand coding.
Results
Video
Sessionssuggest that emotional display rules are mostly implicit and are ineuenceda(seconby the sociocultural norms of Japanese society. Results also indicate thatteachers choose emotional labor strategies based on the emotional
Duncan Iske
experiences they encounter. Strategies on reducing emotional labor at the
PanSIG2023 Resear…
institutional and individual level are discussed.

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Politeness Theory, Academic Writing and He…
9:30
gesAM-9:55 AM
Pragmatics

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Novice Academic writers can be seen as aspirant members of theestablished academic community. One of the obstacles they mustovercome in their quest for acceptance by the academy is to produce text…
that meet its requirements - not only in terms of originality, formatting, andorganisation, but also in terms of cautious, “fuzzy” language. Cautious,
DavidisClayton“fuzzy” language
also known as "hedging". Thus novice academic
Kwansei
GakuinUni…
writers must know how
to usehedging devices in the same ways that
established academic writers do.This presentation will crst outline thepragmatic forces that ineuence the academic writing process. Then it willDCgive a broad overview of the features of academic language that theseforces produce. Finally, the hedging devices employed by expert andnovice academic writers within a specicc academic discipline will be
Promoting research skills in Graduation Semi…
compared.
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ar classes
College and Univer…

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Many universities courses separate the study of content and foreign
languages, without a lot of overlap between the two. Thus, we cnd
students with an advanced level of knowledge within their majors, who …
have no issues discussing these in their L1 (Japanese) yet are unable toexplain them in their L2 (English). What if we could combine the study ofBartlett
content andKevinlanguagein the classroom? In a 3rd and 4th year Japanese
Mukogawa
Women'…
“Graduation Thesis” seminar,
students (n=26) were taught a course
designed with a CLIL and translanguaging pedagogy, in which students
could support their research and language learning endeavours with L1
sources. The projects that students were working on were in the celds ofApplied Linguistics, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and EFL Education.
During a 15-week semester that mobilized ‘Blooms Revised Taxonomy
2001’
as a learningTopic
progression
guide, students
wereSpontaneity
provided with
PromotingExpansion
andi…
opportunities to read, discuss, and present about topics related to their
9:30
AM-9:55 AMnPeer-to-Peer
Speaking
Tasks
graduation
thesis topics.This
presentation
will outline the seminar design,thebenects
students’ comprehension of content and researchCollege
andto
Univer…
development, and the advantages of including their L1 for research
purposes.
Post-course
surveys found increased levels of motivation and
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CUE
CEFR
communicative
output, alongsidedeveloping
their researchand it canPeer-to-peer conversation
tasks canbe hit-and-miss.
For teachers,presentations
skills.
be disheartening to see an over-reliance on memorized answers and stiff'Question - Answer - How about you?' patterns of interaction. For student…
it can be equally frustrating to navigate these expectations of spontaneity
without necessarily having had opportunity to develop the necessary skill
HamishSmith competence and the co-creation of
set.Researchin interactional
Iwate
Prefectural
U… framework with which to help articulate
conversation
providesa valuable
and convey key aspects of 'natural' conversation, giving students arepertoire of skills to apply when engaging in topic expansion.This
presentation will detail how student drawings, serving as single-point
conversation prompts in which the initial content was intentionallydesigned to run out quickly, were used to necessitate spontaneous topic
expansionand interactionFemale
in conversations.
It will also discuss
how theRe-envisioning
Academic
Leadershi…
instruction of key aspects from Galaczi and Taylor's (2018) conception of
9:30
AM-9:55 AM
Incorporating
Executive
Presence
interactional competence,with an emphasis
on topic and turnmanagement,interactive listening, and breakdown repair was used toCollege and Univer…
support students.Analysis of crst-year university student performances in
pre andCUE
post-semester
speaking tasks in both beginner and advanced
S402
PIE
classes,well as insightsfrom beena student
be used
Althoughas
continuous
gains havemadequestionnaire,by women in will
positionsof toleadershipevaluate
thiswithinapproach.
academia, they are still far outnumbered by their malecounterparts (e.g., MEXT, 2022; American Council on Education, 2017; …
2021). One of the consistent elements in the barrier for women to gaining
access to leadership roles is their positionality within academic
Brown
institutions.Kathleen
This session
will introduce the concept of executive presence
KurumeUniversity(Hewlett, 2014), and how adopting and reframing some of the principles ofexecutive presence can help female academics to re-envision their own
positionality. Drawing on the narrative experiences of the presenter,(Brown, K.A., 2020), participants will be challenged to engage with theirown concepts of leadership and how a re-imagining of these concepts

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9:30
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Computer Assisted …

S504 CALL ICL
In order to facilitate the use of Learning Management Systems and edtech
in general, the Static, Dynamic, Communicative, Explorative (SDCE) modelfor edtech deployment was developed. SDCE scaffolds edtech training an…
use for both educators and students. The model divides edtech adoption
into four stages, with each stage increasing in either technical,
Adam
Jenkins
pedagogical,
or social
dibculty. In the crst stage, students are provided
静岡理工科大学
with Static content that students only view. The second stage adds
Dynamic content where students can manipulate the system and receive
automated feedback. In the third stage students Communicate with otherpeople via the technology, and in the cnal stage they Explore the world
sharing their environment and collaboratively creating immediately
relevant and highly personal learning experiences. The gradual progression
fromstatic content todynamic and Centre
then communicative/explorative
eases
Self-Access
Learning
Assessment to
I…
students (and teachers) into the use of edtech and prepares them for
9:30
AM-9:55
AM personallydentifyAreas
for Improvement
successively
more
engaging experiences. The SDCE model is ofparticularuse for more complicated systems such as Moodle, where it isLearner Developm…
not immediately clear where beginners should start or how users should
expandLD
on MW
their use
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ER to get the best from the system.

Our self-access learning centre aims to provide
opportunities for L2 use and intercultural exchange, writing
and other academic support for students enrolled in L2-…
medium courses and assistance in preparation for
YasudalanguageJohn
testsBankier
and study abroad. ThisRaymondpresentation
will
Kanagawa University

Kanagawa University

describe an assessment of our SALC and how data were
utilized to identify areas for improvement and future
initiatives. The assessment utilized a 34-item survey,
primarily completed by students enrolled in English

Teaching
Poetry at
the University
Level
Department language
courses,and results wereused in9:30 AM-9:55 AM

combination with usage cgures and staff reeections to
Literature in Langu…
determine
directions for the SALC in AY2023. Although
S507 GALE
LiLT ERanalysis
revealed
many users were invested in the SALC, we
Research has shown that poetry in the EFL classroom can be an excellent
identiced several areas for improvement which may be oftool to facilitate language learning. University students can often identify
interest
coordinators
at otherinstitutions.
with manytoof self-accessits familiar themes,such as change,
personal
growth, and …
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Brian Rugen
Meiji University

The Rise of Generative AI: How Can Human E…
9:30
AM-9:55 AM
ducators
Sustain Their Relevance?
Computer Assisted …

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Recent advances in the generative abilities of Articcial Intelligence (AI)mean that it can now write texts, formulate questions, analyse responses,
provide real-time feedback, and automate other such tasks traditionally …
controlled and performed by teachers. For human educators to sustain
their relevance as this technology continues to evolve, particularly since
Keith Barrs
the public releaseof generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and its rapid
Hiroshima
U…
integration into
popularShudo
productivity
apps, they will crst need to recognise,then accept, and then embrace the game-changing potential of generativeAI, focusing on facilitating and fostering skills that cannot (yet) be provided
by AI, such as creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, andcollaboration.This presentation will begin with a discussion of the basics
of generative AI, focusing on what it has the potential to do, and how it
does
it. It will then showcase
actual examples
of it in action,Life:in note-taking
Understanding
Qualityof Classroom
an …
and
task
management
apps, carrying out duties such as producing
9:30
AM-9:55
AMpractice
xploratory
case
study
brainstorms, writing lesson plans,constructing
essays, and formulating
coursesyllabi.
With this as a background, there will then be a discussion of
LearnerDevelopm…
how teachers can try to retain their relevance by shifting their focus fromS204
LD BizComtask-oriented
instruction to more personalized learning experiences forstudents.
Qualityof classroom life (QoCRL) is essential to maintain sustainable
learning and teaching practices (Allwright, 2003; Gieve and Miller, 2006).
However, negative classroom experiences can result in a sense of …
disengagement from English study and resistance towards the English
language (Kiyota, 2009, Tsuchiya, 2006).
Cleminson
Exploratory Tim
practice(EP) aims to safeguard QoCRL for both students andteachers. Learner-initiated EP can help students rediscover their curiosity
and reinvigorate their language learning (Kato & Hanks, 2021). EP can also
reduce teacher workloads by combining research and teaching practices.
However, the challenges of transitioning to EP from conventional learning
approaches remains under-researched.
This presentation compares the experiences of a teacher and theirstudents using EP for the crst time. Data consists of student reports,
student
and teacher
journals and post-course
in-depth
interviews. From
A Studyon Incoming
FreshmanStudents'
Ex…
thesesources
student
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College and Univer…

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If universities and lecturers have a thorough understanding of students'
expectations, they can tackle the challenges students face and help thembridge any gaps that may lead to an unfulclled university experience …
(Sander, et al., 2000). The purpose of this study is to investigate Freshman
students' expectations of their English-language university teachers after
Dawes
PrateekThe
Sharmahigh schoolAshton
graduation
and upon entrance to university.
surveyKanda
Universityof … the students'
Kanda
University
of …
comprised cve
sections
addressing
historyof learning
English, experiences with English teachers, and personal beliefs regarding
an ideal English-language classroom. The survey had both Likert-scale andsubjective questions that allowed students to expand on their views. The
researchers will discuss the results and implications for university
teachers to consider when planning lessons. Additionally, it is hoped that
thisresearchraises English-language
university teachersâ
awareness
AI &SpokenEnglish Language
Learning:
fro…inregard to their studentsâ expectations. This is a four-year longitudinal
10:05
Read
Aloud
ChatGPT
study, AM-10:30
currently
inAM
itsto
secondyear. This presentation will share the results
and
implications
fromComputerAssisted… the crst year.
S504 CALL ICLThis presentation covers the evolution of AI-powered speaking
applications used in English language learning, starting with 'read aloud' or
pronunciation assessment using speech recognition, to listen and repeat …
using elicited response, to open response questions using speech-to-text,
to dialog-based systems using ChatGPT. The accuracy and ebcacy ofShunsuke
Furuya…
these systems
are discussed
including the pedagogy that underpins themEnglishCentral
and how each impacts student motivation. Data from deployments ofthese applications in universities in Japan will also be reviewed.

Back to the Future with the Free Access Site …
10:05
AM-10:30 AM
askbasedlearningforall.com
Task-Based Learnin…

S503 CT TBL
For this presentation I am going to introduce Task-based Learning for All
which is a new free site that contains the complete three-level Collins
COBUILD English Course by award winning EFL authors Jane and Dave …
Willis. Despite it being one of the very crst task-based courses written, andnow over 30 plus years old, few task-based language practitioners have
Moser
ever seen it.Jason
With Jane
Willisâ s involvement we digitalized all the
Kanto
GakuinUnive… the recordings and have made it freely
material for the course including
available online. When this course was published in 1988 it introduced two
new innovations to English language materials: namely, a task-based

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Between written and spoken language: The …
10:05
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of tapped
real-time chat
Pragmatics

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In L2 classrooms, the focus is often on accuracy and complexity rather
than appropriacy. There are numerous studies on the differences between
literal and oral styles taught in L2 classrooms. Accordingly, there may be …
perception of well-formulated rules with a sharp borderline between thetwo genres. However, pragmatic usage of actual spoken/written language
YosukeOgawa
does not neatly
ct thisnotion of a clear binary distinction. There is a risk
Kobejust
Universitythat the teacher
explains simple rules and students innocently follow
them. In this presentation, I will investigate an alternative distinction
between spoken and written language style found in chat interactions like
Instagram or LINE, which I term â tappedâ interactions. Tapped
language shares some features with spoken and written genres but also
has aspects that are completely different in interactional appropriacy fromthoseof spoken
and written language. I will
outline some of these
aspects
Creating
subject-speci!cvocabulary
resourc…
oftappedlanguage.
10:05
AM-10:30
AM Furthermore, the paper will also focus on how
steachers
can practically give a notion of spoken/tapped/written
appropriacy
Vocabulary differences to Japanese university students who have become
perfectly accustomed to interactions using tapped language. In addition,
S508
Teval Vocab
how language
appropriacy is diverse according to linguistic and physicalphenomena
There
are various
will beapproaches
also discussed.
to the vocabulary component of university

YOlanguage course design. While some rely on subject-specicc textbooks tocover course goals, others supplement a more general textbook with an …
academic or subject-specicc word list. In the context described here,
however, students are unfamiliar with many of the 2,300 words of the New
General Service List (Browne et al., 2013) that most university general
English course books use. The university works to remedy this in the
Enhancing students' English language skills t…
students’ crst two years on campus. Research shows that regular reading
10:05
AM-10:30
AM within learners’
and listening
activities
zones of proximal development
rough
Neurolanguage
Coaching
improve both receptive and productive skills (Onoda, 2012, Nation, 2007),
Mind, Brain, and Ed…
and that when learners cnd the subject matter interesting, they willcontinue
to undertake
S401 BRAIN
ART tasks (Day, 2008). A set of thirty passages onfamiliar science-related topics were developed using a combination of the
In recent years, neuroscience has made signiccant advances incrst 500 words on the New General Service List, the Science Word List
understanding how the brain functions, reacts, and learns, and these(Coxhead & Hirsch, 2007), and the Science Textbook Word List developed
cndings are providing practical insights in education (Cozolino, 2018; …
by Veenstra and Sato (2018). An example of these texts will be shared, andMcTighe & Willis, 2019). However, despite some recent advancements, theways that attendees can use strategies developed here to make similarceld of second language education has yet to fully utilize the benects ofcourse materials
targeted
to their own teaching contexts. Browne, C.,
Mossmanbrain-basedTimothylearning (Kelly,2017). By applying insights from neuroscience,
Culligan, B. Simon& Phillips,
J. (2013).
The New General Service List. Retrieved
FraserUnive…
educators can develop
moreeffective methods and strategies for teachingfrom http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org.Coxhead, A. and Hirsch, D.
languages to learners of all ages (Netten & Germain, 2012; Helgesen &(2007), 'A pilot science-specicc word list', Revue française de linguistique
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Facilitating student SDG initiatives in a univer…
10:05
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ty context
Global Issues in La…

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cover a wide range offundamental social, economic and environmental issues. As the SDG
agenda makes clear, universities can play a leading role in the realisation …
of the goals through education, research, innovation and leadership (Steele& Rickards, 2021), prompting universities to evaluate how they are
Cardiff
contributingPhilip
towards
sustainability. In Japan, while MEXT has underlined
Kanda
University
its commitment to educationof
for…sustainable development (ESD), theintegration of ESD in higher education has been slow.The present study
aimed to ascertain how students at a private Japanese university would
like to take action for the SDGs, and whether this is reeected in theuniversityâ s SDG targets. Using a Google Forms survey, the researcher
received 28 responses from students and analysed the data to look forpatterns.
interviewalso conductedwiththe universitytextboo…
president.
Isn't it An
time
forwasmore
elicited
imitation
Results
indicatedAM
that while aspects of students' proposed SDG
10:05
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ks?
initiatives are already in place at the university, there is a need for crossfaculty networking and collaboration opportunities for staff and students.

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The presentation will conclude with suggestions for how to achieve this.
Materials Writers
This presentation may be of interest to other institutions conducting
similar LD
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relatedS203
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Elicited imitation is used to model a sentence or phrase and have students
repeat it. This method can improve students' target language
pronunciation, grammar, and euency. Imitation helps students internalize …
the sounds, stress patterns, and intonation of the target language, whichleads to more accurate and natural speech patterns. The approach enables
Bob
Cvitkovic
instructors toprovidestudents with targeted, constructive feedback andTeikyoUniversity
effectively assist them in enhancing their language skills. One of the mostserious shortcomings of this method is the lack of appropriate textbook
resources. During the LL-Lab era, elicited imitation materials were moreprevalent, but ironically, they have fallen out of favour due to the superior
technology of CALL classrooms and now smartphones. This presentation
will describe the cndings of a survey administered to 102 crst- and thirdyear
English students,
who providedFacilitating
feedback on the useof specially
Learningby teaching:peer-to-pe…
designed elicited imitation materials, which they used for two class
10:05
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AM
rperiods.
tuitioninwithContent
Langsurvey, examples of theAlong
the results andof the student
speciccfor elicited imitation will be provided. Contrary to theCollegeformat
and Univer…
author's expectations, students overwhelmingly preferred elicited imitation
over
more
conventional conversation formats.
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Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) involves
learners studying content through an additional language.
This paper focuses on teaching natural language …
processing in English to Japanese computer science
majors. ItJohn
is saidthat to teach is to learn twice over. Thus, it
Blake
University
Aizu feasible, learners are encouraged
makes sense
that,ofwhereto teach themselves. This paper provides the theoretical
unpinning for a learn-to-teach approach. The logistic

dibculties that had to be overcome are described. Ways
how teachers can maximize the effectiveness andNarrating an ALT identity in the JET program

ebciencyof peer-to-peer teaching in CLIL are shared.
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Aspects to be described and explained include the use of
Teacher Developm…
animated presentations, standard operating procedures,
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checklists, and the alignment of aims with assessment
For over three decades, hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals havecriteria.
feedback
theclass language
tutor andthe learners
set foot onThe
Japanesesoil asfrom
foreignassistantteachers(ALTs)
throughthegovernment-sponsoredJapan
Exchange
andTeaching(JET) …
for this mode of tuition was overwhelmingly positive. The
program.
there istuition
an apparent
need forscrutinyof thein
lived
move toAlthoughpeer-to-peer
createda seachangeboth
experiences of ALTs in their situated contexts, empirical discussion andTakaaki
Hiratsuka
theattitudeof theteacherandremarkably
learners.insubcient, as previous
researchaddressing
themhave been
Ryukoku University
studies have focused primarily on the advantages and shortcomings ofindividual teachers and the characteristics of their team-teachingpractices. Against this backdrop, the study on which this presentation isbased explored, via narrative interviews, the identities and theirconstructions of 22 ALTs in the JET program. It is of critical importance tounderstand the complexities of ALT identity because how we view
ourselves, how we project
ourselves to others,
and how
perceive
us
Perceptionsof disability
beforeandothers
after
a se…
impactall aspects
our professional and private lives, including our
10:05
AM-10:30
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mester-longcoursebeliefs, emotions, development,
and practices. The cndings revealed thatthegestaltofALT
identityiscomprisedof two primary categories,
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foreigner identity and dabbler identity, and their six incumbent subS201
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identities(i.e.,
celebrity, sojourner, English expert, assistant, greenhorn, andJapanese
novice).
The presentation
concludes
withstudents'
implications
forIn
this study,
the researcher
attempted
to ascertain
perceptions
languageteacher
educationandbefore
identity
research.
ofdisabilities
at theiruniversity
andafter taking a semester-long
CLIL course entitled Disability Studies: Rights and Current Issues. Using …
Google forms, the researcher surveyed the entire class of 24 third andfourth year students. The researcher then analyzed the data and was
Brown
particularly Tina
interested
in changes over time. There were two main
Kanda
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purposes for this research: toofassessteacher effectiveness in teachingcertain concepts, and to track any changes that occurred over the courseof the semester related to student perceptions of disability. As a secondary

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Possibility of Teaching Young Learners Englis…
10:05
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Mixed, Augmented,…

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Though many users still experience sickness in using HMDs for VR(Saredakis, 2020) and children who are younger than 13 years old are notsupposed to use HMDs such as Quest 2, potential benects of using VR fo…
foreign language learning, such as lowering foreign language anxiety (Yorket al., 2021), speaking performance (Thrasher, 2022), and long-term
TakumiNiwa et al., 2019) may indicate
Yukiethat
Saito
memory retention(Scrivner
VR can be used
Student
Chuo
University
for young English learners. In this study, to investigate whether young
English learners can enjoy learning English with the PC version of VR andwhether VR English lessons can improve their speaking skills, VR English
lessons using a VR platform, Immerse, were offered to four young English
learners. They also took a pre-speaking test before the VR lessons and a
post-speaking test after the VR lessons. Although no improvement in
speaking
was observed,
the learners could enjoy
VR English
lessons
Speaking
self improvement
viathevideo
analysi…
with their PCs. Based on the results, the possibility and limitations of
10:05
AM-10:30
AM-teachinga yearlong
project
Englishto young
English learners using the PC version of VR will
beLearnerdiscussed,
and pedagogical implications about how VR English lessons
Developm…
can be offered even to young English learners will be provided.
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Becoming a concdent and accurate L2 speaker requires that the learnerhas awareness of their weaknesses and decciencies. In the classroom
students can become over-reliant on the instructor for assessment and …
error correction, therefore ideally we would like our students to become
self-subcient, noticing and correcting their own mistakes. Other
Serey
researchersAlexandra
have used self-transcription
to make students aware of their
Baika
Women'serrors. Whileeffective,
thisUniv…
can take up a great deal of class time. This
project instead used eip-grid and video analysis to achieve the same
results with a methodology that is more practical for the classroom.
Students clmed themselves answering questions, watched theirperformances and were given time to assess their utterances before
recording a second version - all within one class. Video analysis was
guidedby a simple
student-centric
rubric, directing
students
to common
TeacherTrainees'
Opinionsof theViabilityof …
weaknesses and errors. Three slight variations in methodology (guided,
10:05
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in AM-10:30
a JapaneseContext
unguidedand peerwere repeated for a total of twelve sessions.
Overthe yearthe students became more proccient at self-correcting,
Extensive
Readingdeveloped longer and more detailed responses, and by reeecting on theirperformance
could see their progress. This presentation covers
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from theundergraduate
video analysisstudents
covering
The participants
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As part of their seminar work, the students read articles describing the …
benects of extensive reading (ER) and the process of implementing an ER
program. They also read articles describing relevant research studies
focusing onJoshua
ER. AfterAntlesix weeks of lessons, with each lesson focusing on a
Tsuda
University
different article, the teacher trainees participated in an ER lesson as
students. Their assignment for this portion of the seminar was to share
their thoughts on ER, speciccally ERâ s viability within the Japanesecontext. The data were collected through the use of a questionnaire
containing a series of open-ended questions. Each question represents a
research question for this study. The research questions elicited theteacher
opinions on the following
issues: ER' s forviability
withinUsingtraineesâ
ChatGPT-generated
materials
IELT…
theJapanesecontext;
ER' s viability for low-level learners; the perceived
10:05
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AMcourses
preparation
weaknesses and strengths of ER; possible approaches for incorporating ER
intojunior highschoolComputerAssisted… or high school English classes; ER and student
motivation; and whether they plan to use ER in the future. The results
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indicated
the trainees
levelInternationalThelearners.
English Language Testing System (IELTS) is a widely
recognized test of English language procciency, and is a requirement for
many universities and employers around the world. Preparing for the IELT…
can be a challenging task, and it is important for students to have accessJA

10:40 AMJT

to high-quality materials that will help them succeed.In this proposal, I
explore using the cutting-edge technology of ChatGPT, a large language
Jonathan Buckmodel trained by OpenAI, to generate IELTS preparation materials.
Toyo University
ChatGPT can be used to generate a wide range of materials, including
practice tests, reading comprehension passages, and writing prompts. The
use of ChatGPT-generated materials can provide several benects to IELTS
preparation courses. Firstly, it will save time and effort for teachers who
would otherwise have to spend hours creating materials. Secondly, it will
provide students with a wide variety of materials that will help them
improve their skills in all areas of the test. Finally, the materials can be
Do Compulsory
Self-Access
Learning
Center…
adjusted
to the specicc needsof the students aswell as the pedagogicalapproachof the instructor.
This presentation will explore the possibilities
10:40
AM-11:05
AM
VisitsFacilitate
Autonomy?
of using ChatGPT in the classroom. It will explain how to use ChatGPT
College andeffectively
forUniver…
material generation, how ChatGPT materials can be used in
the classroom, and their effectiveness and limitations.
S402 CUE PIE
Self-access learning centers have been shown to facilitate learning forhighly motivated communities of learners with strong ideal L2 selves(Gillies, 2010; Hughes et al., 2011). But when attendance is a course …
requirement, how do students utilize them? This case study examined 214
crst- and second-year English major university students' usage of a selfSteven
Limover a semester. As part of their course, crst-year
access learning
centerMeikaiUniversity
students wererequired
to attend three times and second-year students
four times. Data were collected through attendance cards which students
used to self-report visits to the self-access learning center. The results
indicated that crst-year students utilized the facility more frequently, took
part in more output-based activities, and made more use of practicematerials for the assessed communication tasks on their course than thesecond-year
this session,various factors
for these
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Gender Codes and the Hidden Curriculum In …
10:40
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Elementary
Gender Awareness …

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Female participation in the STEM workforce is lower in Japan than in any
other OECD country. Though Japanese women make up around 45% of thetotal workforce, only 16.6% of researchers in STEM celds are women. The…
perception that science is for boys is already noticeable by Junior HighSchool level, and the 'turn away' from science at Junior High School shows
Donnell…
a gendered Jonathan
pattern. This
presentation reports on a content analysis of
Sojo
University
1655 images of adults in 24 science textbooks authorised by MEXT for use
in Japanese elementary schools. Based on the concepts of gender codesand gender framing, this presentation describes how the images inelementary school textbooks contribute to the reproduction of hegemonic
gender roles through the patterns of transmission highlighted by Arnot(2002): invisibility, domesticity, and low status. Though there is variation
betweentextbook
series, all series
containedBarriers
fewer femalewhen
scientists
than
How toOvercome
CulturalTea…
men,
portrayedeven
as connected to the domestic sphere,
10:40
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CommunicationJapanand contained fewer examples of ' brilliant'female scientists.This
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presentation may be of interest to people who work at STEM-oriented
Why
is it haveso hardget Japanese
students
to speak inclass?orIt's
an areageschools,
an tointerest
in textbooks
and materials
design,whooldquestion,and potentially
one of the mostpuzzling
andfrustratingparts
otherwiseinterested
in the reproductionof genderroles
throughhiddenof a foreign language teacher's professional life. One reason is that certai…
curricula.
aspects of Japanese culture are magniced in the language classroom, andoften block communication and learning. In this presentation I will offer
Bruno Vannieu
workable explanationsof the cultural patterns behind the ways Japanese
Alma
Publishing
N… in which they interact in groups, andstudents speak (or don't), the/ ways
practical advice that can be put to use immediately in the classroom. I aim
to provide clarity and hope to teachers starting at Japanese universities orhigh schools, and some new perspectives for veterans, hoping it will savesome of the frustration I experienced, and lead to more active, talkativeclasses.

JD

BVIntercultural Communication and Language …
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Intercultural Comm…

S504 CALL ICLIntercultural understanding is an important goal of foreign language
education, yet intercultural communication and foreign language learning
are often considered separate celds. This presentation will report on a joi…
effort carried out in India and Japan to develop new approaches tointroducing intercultural communication in foreign language education.
Shauleswill be provided, including challenges found in
BackgroundJosephon the initiative
Intercultural
I…
educationalJapan
contexts
in both countries.
There will be an introduction of thelearning model being used, the Developmental Model of Linguaculture
Learning, which provides teachers with a framework for introducing culture
into foreign language classes. Examples for how this approach is being
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Multimodality in the L2 Classroom
10:40 AM-11:05 AM
Mind, Brain, and Ed…

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Recent research in brain-based studies of learning from the celds ofneuroscience and cognitive psychology inform teachers of the importanceof embodiment in language use and learning. Moreover, certain classroo…
practices can potentially enhance language acquisition by improving themeaning-making process as well as attention, memory, and motivation.
Handley (2020) reeecting on the embodiment of language learningsuggests teachers should aim to stimulate the senses of the students andChieko Mimura
Josh Kidd
also embed the language in its context of situational use. This
Utsunomiya Univers…
presentation will focus on multimodality within the L2 classroom.
Multimodal learning in this instance refers to using multiple methods forstudents to experience learning in order to facilitate the process oftransitioning information into the studentâ s long-term memory.
Multimodal learning includes the ideas of multimodal input which engages
the studentsâ senses, and multimodal output in order to get the students
toexperience thefortargetlanguage.
In this presentation,
the relevant
brainRationale
andstudent
evaluationof livec…
based
theories
behindtheideaofmultimodality
and
how
these
ideas
have
10:40
AM-11:05 AM
ltural-themed
been applied in English lectures
language classes at a university level will be
described.
Feedback on these practices from participating teachers andLearner Developm…
students will also be presented.
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To promote autonomy, interest in foreign culture and to improve theacademic skills of its crst-year students, one faculty at a mid-level
university in Tokyo devised an event based around live lectures on the top…
of the English language (e.g., differences between American and British
English, World Englishes, ESP). These lectures were around 30-40 minutes
GrahamRobsonand deliveredin English.
Students were encouraged to take notes, and latersummarize,ToyowriteUniversity
opinions on as well as cnd out new information about the
topics. Attendance was not compulsory, but students that did attend could
get extra credit. The set of four lectures were delivered during lunchtimes
in the Spring 2022 semester via the live Webex / YouTube live platforms.
This study sets out to address the attitudes and approaches of students
towards these lectures, and to cnd out how students tackle the dibcult
academictasks of note-taking
and general
topic understanding/
Responding
to MEXT:
Pre-Entry
Programs
at …
engagement. Data was collected by a survey from participants (n=126)
10:40
AM-11:05
AMapaneseUniversities
who attended
thelive version of at least two of these lectures as well as
fromanalysisof the reports written as extra credit (n=18). The results
Collegeand Univer…
show that these lectures lead to enjoyment and instances of learnerautonomy,
including
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The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology (MEXT) recommended in July 2017 that universities establish
pre-entry education programs to help high school students make a smoot…
transition to university (Kawai, 2018). This presentation will report on a
study of (a) the types of pre-entry programs; (b) the universities'
HiroyoNakagawa
Kaori Hakone
expectations
regarding
students' language procciency
and other academic
Osaka
Jogakuin
Uni…
Osaka
Jogakuin
disciplines. Understanding the pragmatic abilities and language Uni…
skillsstudents need upon entry will help faculty create pre-entry programs that
help them arrive 'ready to learn' in the Japanese university system. Data
were collected through interviews with faculty in charge of pre-entry
programs at universities in Japan and examination of online information
about these programs. The initial coding from interviews will be analyzed

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in this presentation. The potential of pre-entry programs will also be
10:40
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on
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discussed
and recommendations provided for a possible course of study
toCollegebetter prepare
students and address MEXT's request.ReferenceKawai,
and Univer…
H. (2018). Transitions and future prospects of linking secondary and higher
education
in Japan.
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https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ecoedu/37/37/37_20/_pdf
This presentation reeects on the presenter's crst experience teaching athree-year 'zemi', or graduation thesis seminar, at a Japanese university. It
will provide an overview of how zemi are conducted, and focus in particul…
on how to scaffold students' path to successful completion of a
graduation thesis in English. I will reeect on three major phases of the zemi
Carolinedevelopment
process:Hutchin…
(1) Identifying a research theme, outlining the
Associate
Professo…
course, and recruiting students; (2) Nurturing students' research skills
and autonomy and helping them identify potential topics; (3) Guiding
students through the thesis research and writing process. The
presentation will focus in particular on the cnal year of the zemi, the thesis
guidance stage. I will map the progress of representative students,
highlighting some of the dibculties they encountered, identifying criticallearning
incidents,
and discussing
student perceptions
gleaned fromin …
Student
Debates:Sca"olding
for Successreeective
activities.
I will assess the merits and demerits of peer feedback,
10:40
AM-11:05
AM
ask-based
Learningand writing process activities such as
student-teacher consultations,research
proposals
Task-Based
Learnin…and annotated bibliographies. Finally, I will summarize
how the course was revised based on this initial experience, and how I
S503
CTit TBL
envisagedeveloping in the future.
The benects of task based language teaching (TBLT) for second language
acquisition are well supported by the literature (Bryfonski & McKay, 2019).
However, implementing this methodology in a Japanese context is viewe…
by many as challenging (Harris, 2018). Through the use of copious
preparation time and careful scaffolding to boost student concdence,
McGettig…
students in Martyn
two university
classes (total N32) worked in pairs to prepare
U…a range of topics. The support offered
for debatesHiroshima
with other Shudopairs onincluded the chance for students to practice with pre-written arguments on
more simple topics, as well as plenty of time to plan and receive teacher
feedback on their own arguments. In addition, students were encouraged
to try to predict their opponents arguments, and prepare accordingly.
Incidental focus on form was given throughout in the form of corrective
feedbackfrom the teacher.
Between their crst
attempts and theircnalTechniques
for Evaluating
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Techniques for Evaluating Classroom Materia…
10:40
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Japanese
Young Learners
Materials Writers

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Objectively choosing new materials for young learner classrooms in Japanis not easily accomplished. Teachers sometimes select new classroom
materials based on the aesthetic appeal of a material or because of a …
colleague' s recommendation. If teachers want to objectively assess thepedagogical value of any given materials, they can develop a review
committee and an evaluation instrument, which signiccantly helps clter
Jesse Reidak
teacher subjectivity out of the materials selection process. Committee
Teachermembers can create surveys for materials review, which allows themembers to compare results objectively. The presenter will discusscreating and utilizing such a survey within academic settings for online andtext-based materials. Classroom materials (e.g., orthographic and euencybuilding activities) and example survey-based results will be provided.
Teachers' overuse of materials will also be discussed. Young learners
haveshorterwrong
attention spans
adult learners, soProblems
it is critical to provide
What'swiththanyakudoku?:
and…
them with a wide assortment of objectively selected materials.
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possibilities
Pragmatics

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Yakudoku (訳読), or translation reading, is the practice inJapanese English education of translating English texts into
syntactically correct Japanese that has been called the …
“dominant” English teaching method in Japan. It has been
criticizedThomas
as contributing
to the continued low procciency ofAmundr…
Universityof E… in English language teaching
Japanese
Englishlearners
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literature, even as translation in language teaching has been
positively re-evaluated. Despite such widespreaddisapproval, and with support by studies within Japan infavor
its continuation,
the practicetranslation
reading
Whyofteachinglisteningmightofbe
the most
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remains.
Withincontext,
I will crst give an overview of
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teach
literature
Listening regarding translation reading before examiningclassroom data from a Japanese junior high school English

S508 Teval Vocab
class
in whichtranslation
was used.
Undeveloped
listeningskills can reading
seriously hamper
one's Using
ability to learn aforeign language. It is commonly
observedthat students
who spend
systemic-functional
multimodal
discourse
analysis(SF-time
listening to English outside the class give themselves more chances for …
MDA),
will examine
how
the teacher
conducted
translation
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Alastair Graham-…
ABAX Ltd.

ZenGengo, AI, and the future of language tea…
10:40
AM-11:05
ching
and AMlearning
Computer Assisted …

11:25 AMJT

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In the last 5 years, educational institutions around the world haveexperienced two revolutionary changes in the way teaching and learning
takes place. The crst was spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, which caus…
many schools and universities to adopt remote teaching methods on ascale never seen before. Then, just as the pandemic seemed to be underRaine were returning to face-to-face lessons, a revolution
control, andPaul
institutions
ZenGengo
in generative
AI started to dominate the headlines.Teachers andeducational institutions have responded in various ways to OpenAI's Large
Language Model, "ChatGPT", and related technologies. Some have chosen
to ban the technology outright, while others are trying to incorporate it into
their classes more productively.ZenGengo's overall mission is to help
teachers teach and learners learn languages in ebcient, engaging andeffective ways. To this end, the team of language teachers behind theplatform
is currently
examiningand how
GPT teachers'
and related
E"ectsof CPDon Sriwhether
LankanESL
cl…
technologies
couldbe
integrated
into
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thispresentation,
the
11:25
AM-11:50
AMssroompractice:study
co-founder anddeveloper ofA
thecaseplatform
will talk about how it is currently
being
used
by teachers and institutions around the world as part of a
TeacherDevelopm…
blended learning approach to language education, and touch on the
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playeddecades,in language
education by inhumans.
In recentinnovations
the continuing

professional development (CPD) of English as a second
language (ESL) teachers' worldwide have enhanced the …
quality and sustainability of ESL education in the school
Deepa Ellepola in technology, training
system. Advancements
University of Leeds

opportunities, practitioner research, researcher and collegial
networks introduced signiccant innovations to CPD which
also need constant support and revival to underpin
teachers' practices (Campbell et al., 2004). However,Frames, ideologies,
language
innovations
vary from oneandcontext
to anotherteacher
dependingid…
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Frames, ideologies, and language teacher id…
11:25
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construction
Global Issues in La…

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Native-speakerism is an ideology in English language teaching which
privileges the models of English, the teachers of English, and thepedagogic approaches of the West over those from other parts of the …
world. Through a frame analysis of qualitative data, this presentation
investigates how the professional identities and teaching practices of four
Robert-J.
teachers (including
theLowepresenter) were shaped by and ineected with
Ochanomizu
native-speakerism while Univer…
working at a major language teaching institute inTokyo. An account is provided of how, through a process of deconstruction
and reframing, these teachers began to question the way in which theirprofessional identities were framed, and begin to construct new identities
more sensitive and responsive to the sociocultural realities of theirteaching context.

Helping Students Find Something to Say
11:25 AM-11:50 AM
College and Univer…

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Yashima's (2009) International Posture (IP) scale consists of four
motivational dimensions: 1) intergroup approach/avoidance tendencies; 2)
an interest in international activities/vocations; 3) an interest in …
international affairs; and 4) having something to communicate. Previously,
we found that Japanese English learners scored highest in intergroup
Ian Willeytendencies and lowest in having something toapproach/avoidance
KagawaUniversity
communicate;Japaneselearners may thus have an interest in interculturalcommunication but are hindered by a perceived lack of things to say. The
present study attempted to elevate learners' IP scores through a task
aimed to help students develop and express opinions. Participants werecrst- and second-year students (n=157) at one Japanese university
enrolled in seven General English classes, and grouped in an intervention
andcontrol group.
Students in the intervention
group completed
weeklyL…
Identity& Pedagogy:
Black Female
Englishwritingtasks on AM
Moodle in which they expressed their opinions about
11:25
AM-11:50
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international topics. Yashima's (2009) IP survey was administered on the
crst
and Awarenesslast day of…each course. Students in the intervention group had
Genderhigher IP scores, both overall and in all four IP dimensions, than those in
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group,
thoughsigniccant.
One
aspect Boostingof the future
Englishof English
learners'
language
IP scores
learning
likely requiresis the growingacoordinateddiversityof itseffortteachers.
withinThis
a uniced
presentation
English curriculum.
reports on one such diverse andexpanding group, Women of the African Diaspora (Black women), who …
teach and live in Japan. In the last two decades, there has been an
increase in research on English language teacher identity in Japan.
Avril-Haye
Matsui has focused on the identity development
However, muchof this researchof Caucasian teachers from inner-circle countries. (Appleby, 2014;

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Advances in video conferencing software during the COVID 19 Pandemic
have led to opportunities to connect students from around the world.
Limited opportunities to travel and study abroad have also contributed to …
latent demand for cross-cultural exchange opportunities. This presentation
will outline a 2-year program where students from Yogyakarta StateJames
University (UNY)
andVenema
Aichi University of Education (AUE) took part in online
Aichi University
ofas
E…part of a Cross-Cultural Understanding
cultural exchanges
via Zoomcourse at AUE. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between theuniversities, and an obcial request from UNY for increased opportunities
for online participation in AUE courses, led to the inclusion of UNY
students in a course at AUE (異文化理解). This presentation will cover thetheoretical orientation of the cultural exchanges, the practicalconsiderations
that aneededto be addressed, andMeaning-Recall…
the impact on
Introducing
Contextualized
participating
students
in the form of student feedback and pre- and post11:25
AM-11:50
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Vocabulary
course student responses on anPlatform
Intercultural Competence Questionnaire.
Plans
for a more comprehensive inclusion of UNY students in future
Vocabulary
courses will also be discussed.
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Meaning-recall vocabulary tests (L2 to L1 translation) are considered
perhaps the most accurate way to assess knowledge of the form-meaning
link. Such tests limit construct-irrelevant ineuences on scores like rando…
guessing and testwiseness, and their high correlation with reading
comprehension suggests strong construct validity for reading-related
Tim Stoeckel
research. Existing
meaning-recall tests present PaultargetRainewords alone or in
University
ofNiigat…
short, non-decning sentences. For a fuller understanding of learnersâword knowledge in natural language use, some researchers suggest
assessing vocabulary in richer contexts. Contextualized meaning-recall
tests (CRMTs) are rarely used, however, partly because paper-and-pencil
CMRTs are labor-intensive, and self-marking, online CMRT platforms havenot existed. Addressing this gap, the presenters will introduce a recentlydeveloped,
freely-available
online platformtwenty-!rst
for administering CMRTs.
Test
Strategies
for developing
centur…
creators
input
a
text
and
selecttargetwords
orphrases.
This
producesa
11:25
AM-11:50
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in
an
EMI
class
test in which learners see a passage with input boxes under the target
items
to input
L1 translations. This format enables examinees to consider
Collegeand Univer…
broad context when discerning word meaning. Distinct responses for each
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item canbe marked
automatedIn
recent years,
marking
Japanese
in future
universities
test use. have
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and uncertain future. Ineuenced by the OECD's Decnition and Selection ofCompetencies (2005), the Ministry of Economics Trade and Industry has
Cecilia Smith-Fuji…
speciced Fundamental
Competencies for Working Persons (2017) ,Shirayuri
University' action, thinking and teamwork' , each of which is comprised of various
elements such as the ability to communicate and the ability to understanddifferences in points of view. In a complementary strategy, MEXT has
devised plans that require educational institutions to improve studentsâ
ability to collaborate to solve problems. This presentation begins byintroducing a pedagogical approach utilized by an international society
andculture course
a university
English department
aims toStudent
andwithinteacherexperiences
ofthata Japan…
foster these skills. Alongside English acquisition, the course strives to
11:25
AM-11:50 AMTandem Exchange
se-Swedish
create a learning community
where critical thinking and communicationareused Developm…
to develop a broad perspective. The second part of the
Learnerpresentation will introduce examples of class materials that are designed
to achieve
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MW TheER materials focus on the use of comparisons as a steptoimproveconceptual
development,
literacy
andmainactivate
higher
The Tandem language learningmodelmedia
is basedon twocomponents,
order
thinking
reciprocity
andskills.
autonomy (Little & Brammerts, 1996). These are realised
differently depending on e.g. contexts and meeting modes, but …
fundamental to the idea of exchange. Research on Tandem has beenheavily Europe and America centred, which calls for further perspectives.
JorunnChristine-Ericsdo…
This study explores
student and teacher experiencesof Nilsson
a JapaneseStockholm
Universit…
Swedish Tandem, and how these can be connected to reciprocity
andautonomy.Our Tandem took place on-line in 2020. 44 students
participated, and interviews were carried out with 9 students and 4teachers. Data were processed using qualitative content analysis. The
results show that the students valued interactional and learning-to-learn
aspects, focusing on natural language use and personal peer-to-peer
experiences,
reeects
the principle Networkof reciprocity. Teachers
valuedStudent which
Peer
Interaction
Subcommi…
linguistic development, and seemed to implicitly assume a high degree of
11:25
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(SPINS)
learnerAM-12:25
autonomy
toForum
be in place from the start, rather than it being
developedor
expanded
underway. In this presentation, we discuss how ourWorkshop
results can be interpreted and what implications they might have forshapingPRAG
and understanding
Tandem learning from a wider perspective.
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For some people, being a student is an invaluable experience that they longfor. However, studying or doing research by ourselves can sometimes
make us feel lonely, isolated, or unsuccessful. When we face dibculties, …
peers can be a source of encouragement, support, and even professional
development. The Student Peer Interaction Network Subcommittee
Chelanna
White
Natsuho(SPINS) works
to support
students in JALT throughbeing Mizoguc…
a place for them
University
to help eachReitaku
other bysharing resources, getting advice, and networking aswell as through sharing some student beneccial information. In thisworkshop-styled forum, the attendees will be offered an opportunity to
discuss their experience with student peers while given some pros andcons of what the SPINS staff experienced and are experiencing as aNM

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Japanese university students are often required to perform free writing
activities in EFL classes to encourage concdence in writing in English. Free
writing activities are decned as "the act of writing quickly for a set time …
from ten to cfteen minutes, just putting down whatever is in the mind,
without pausing and worrying about what words to use, and without going
ForsytheStevenback to modify
whatMacWhin…
has been written" (Li, 2007,Edo
p. 42).
The authors'
HirosakiGakuinUni…
HirosakiGakuinstudents have done free writing activities throughout three
yearsUni…
of theirEnglish composition courses and were asked to reeect on their feelings
about the effectiveness of such activities. The authors will brieey recap
PanSIG2022 presentation data about participants' writing euency changes,
then will explain how the students felt about doing the free writing activity
tasks in their public and private university courses based on qualitative
analysisof writing
reeectionwith
surveyAI:
responses.
Representative
examplesStudents
writingcheating,
or enhanc…
from the students' reeection on their free writing experiences will also be
11:25
AM-11:50
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shared.
Attendees
free
writing
their university English language classes and come away
CollegeandinUniver…
with ideas for creating EFL writing classes that align with students' ideas
on improving
own writing.
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The researcher assigned students (n=8) in an upper-year undergraduate
applied linguistics course, taught in English, to write a 500-word essay
using ChatGPT. An essay question was designed to be challenging for an …
AI tool to answer. The following objectives were discussed prior to thetask: 1) students would attempt to produce the best essay possible; 2)
MarcosBenevides
students could
use any
tool at their disposal, as long as they declared its
J.
F.
Oberlin
Univers…
use; 3) the teacher would assign both hypothetical and actual grades, withactual grades based on the quality of the attempt and student feedback
post-task. After the task, an open discussion was held in which both theteacher and students discussed the effectiveness, implications, and bestpractices in using the AI tool. Results were encouraging for teachers
worried about AI-enhanced writing, and suggest that the quality of such
writing
is not aProfessional
given; educational benects
can be moderated
by the quality
TeacherDevelopment:
Neurosci…
of the essay prompt provided by the teacher, and also by each students'
11:25
AM-11:50
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inattention
L2 Teachingscholarly
anddiscussed,
Mind,
Brain, andand
Ed… participants will come away informed about some ofthe pitfalls and advantages of AI writing-enhancement tools, and how to
use them
appropriately.
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Understanding the brain-based principles of second language acquisitionand how to apply them to university L2 teaching contexts can provide
teachers with a diverse range of relevant and practical teaching strategie…
Moreover, familiarity with the principles of neuroscience can deepen
teachers' understanding of language teaching and learning. To harness
ChiekoMimuraJosh Kidd
this potential,
teachers
may benect from opportunities
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This presentation outlines approaches to using debates in second
language classrooms, to promote the development of learners' research,presentation, critical thinking, and speaking skills. Debates remain an ide…
task for promoting acquisition of such skills, providing opportunities forlearners to produce spontaneous speech, conduct independent research,
Shalvin Singhpractice presentation
skills, and to question, critique, and deeply analyze
Kanda
Universityof … (Halvorsen, 2005). However, manyideas in a semi-structured format
instructors refrain from teaching debate skills in university classrooms,
viewing them as overly challenging, time-consuming, even contrary tocultural norms. Attendees will be introduced to tasks and approaches for
introducing debate skills that address these concerns and allow language
learners of various procciency levels to engage in meaningful debates.
Examplesof structures
for articulatingideas clearly andof
deeplywill be
The English
writingdevelopmentbilingual…
examined,
as wellas strategies to encourage learners to ask effective
11:25
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weekendschoolsquestions, disagree
politely, and examine
ideas critically. The developmentofBilingualism
academic and critical thinking skills remain central to a quality university
education. Debates provide learners with the opportunity to improve and
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Japanese-English
can be rather
childrenenjoyable
in Japanandcanofacquirepractical
Englishbenectliteracy
tolanguagehomethroughlearners.
literacy activities and attending English weekend school.
However, their English literacy ability has never been measured objectivel…
over time. This paper reports on the longitudinal assessment of English
writing in 17 Japanese-English bilingual children (ages 9 to 13 at crst
JaniceNakamura
Suzanneassessment)
who attended
two English weekend
schools Quayin Tokyo andUniversity
Yokohama. Kanagawa
The children
were tested using a USInternational
standardizedChristi…
test in two or
three 12-month intervals. The results show that many children maintained
their writing scores at an Average range corresponding to same-age US
peers from the time of their crst test despite the weekend schoolsâ
online format during the past pandemic years. Some childrenâ s writingSS

performance even moved into a higher score range during this challenging
Using
positive psychology interventions to su…
period. These results indicate that online weekend school lessons did not
11:25
AM-11:50
AMnegatively
impactchildrenâ s English writing. Factors that help support
pport
EFL
students
the childrenâ s longitudinal English writing development during the
Learner Developm…
COVID-19 pandemic will be discussed.
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Language learning is a long-term process involving positive and negative
emotions (MacIntyre & Ayers-Glassey, 2022), which can euctuate
depending on many factors, such as test scores, classroom interactions, …
performances, classroom activities, and teacher feedback. While it is notpossible to avoid or eradicate negative emotions (and this is not our aim),
Vola-…
Phillip-A. Bennett
promoting aDominiquepositive learning
environment and highlighting
positive
Kanda
University
of
…
Kanda
Universityof … toexperiences can impact students' perspectives and beliefs with regards
learning (MacIntyre & Ayers-Glassey, 2022; Seligman, 2019). That is why
positive psychology, 'the scienticc study of what goes right in life'(Fresacher, 2016, p. 344), has its place in education and should be fosteredand practiced in the classroom.In this practice-oriented presentation, we
will share some positive psychology interventions. In our functions as
learning
advisors
and lecturers,
applied those
activities
with forour L1 …
Whichapproachto wephonics
is thebest
students in classes and during one-to-one advising sessions. We also
11:25
AM-11:50youngAMapanese? development sessions in
implemented themas partlearnersof our professional
our
workplace.
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found that they make a signiccant difference in terms
Teaching
Youngerof developing a positive learning and working environment, raising
students'
awareness
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andresilience
theirgrowing
learning interest
processinandalso helping
theminto
In recentyearsthroughout
there has been
introducing
phonics
lookforwardto otherlearning
opportunities.
Englishclassesin schools
in Japan.
However, there are different
approaches to teaching phonics including embedded, analytic, and …
synthetic. How can teachers determine the most effective approach foryoung learners of English whose crst language is Japanese? Based on the
Kate Satowork of Komoaka(1991), this presentation looks at how those with
Hokkai-Gakuen
Univ…use the sense-determinative and senseJapanese as their crst language
discriminative functions to read Japanese. The connection between
Komaoka's functions is discussed in relation to the different approaches toteaching phonics to young learners. The presentation will discuss theimpact of the above-mentioned relation which includes the impact of the
font used when teaching English. The presentation will be in English,
however, the slides for this presentation will be in both Japanese andEnglish.
The presentation will
be of interestto teachers ofyoung learners,…
Anti-oppressive
globalcitizenshipeducationorparentsof young
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Teacher Developm…

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Anti-oppressive global citizenship education (GCE), a specicc strand ofcritical GCE, is a new celd, especially concerning empirical studies within
English classrooms (Pashby & da Costa, 2021). Based on an anti-…
oppressive GCE framework (Carroll, 2021) and the research question, 'what
does anti-oppressive theory look like in practice in English classrooms andShawna-M.
Carroll
how can thisbe woven into
global citizenship education?', this presentation
explains theOkayama
results ofUniversity
a project which used a portraiture methodology tocollect and analyze approximately 6 hours of semi-structured interviews,
detailed impressionistic records, and several lessons collected (LawrenceLightfoot & Davis, 1997), with one secondary school English teacher in
Ontario, Canada. Through an immersive engagement process of analysis(Ravitch & Carl, 2021), the cndings crafted into a portrait showcase how
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12:00
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Testing and Evaluat…

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Demonstrating productive orthographic vocabulary knowledge in a second
language (L2) via written form-recall testing is congruent with the recallingof vocabulary to express intended meaning in L2 writing. Such open-ende…
recalling of L2 vocabulary differs from the bounded action of selecting (orrecognizing) from options on multiple-choice tests. Challenges remain,
Jeffrey how
Martinhowever, regarding
to elicit the recall of target form while avoiding
Momoyama
Gakuin…
synonymous responses that acceptably
ct the itemâ s carrier sentence.
This presentation centers on a salient subset of items from a written formrecall vocabulary test (k = 95), administered via smartphone to a multi-site
sample of university-level Japanese L2 learners of English (n = 134).
Despite 11 items garnering non-target responses by over cve percent ofparticipants, Rasch-based validity evidence indicated that the test as awhole
was a reliable
and unidimensional
measure of productive
Literature
Circles:
From Assigned
Roles to Re…
orthographic
vocabularyknowledge.
Moreover,non-target
response
12:00
PM-12:25
PMding
Response
Logs
patterns were diffuse and did not correspond to relative word dibculty nor
relative
ability. Examples and item-writing guidelines are presented
Collegepersonand Univer…
in detail. All together, the evidence indicates that teachers and researchers
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can rely on form-recall testing as a practical, reliable, and valid
way to assess
Literature
Circlesthe(orlevel
Readingor growth
Circles)of their
werelearnersâ
crst introduced
vocabulary
in the earlyknowledge.
1990sin the crst language classroom, but have more recently been
adapted into EFL contexts. Aiming to facilitate peer-led discussion, …
Literature Circles involve students reading the same piece of literature andthen sharing their ideas about it in a collaborative setting. They commonly
Andy Gill
involve assigningroles to students, in order to provide them with
Kanda
Universityof …
scaffolding, support
learner concdence
and aid task completion (Dornyei
and Murphey, 2003). However, such assigned roles have attracted criticism
for being too mechanical, as students may ' read their role sheets one
after the other, and never get into a real conversation' (Daniels, 2002,p.13). In this study, the researcher conducted a short-term action research

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12:00
PM-12:25
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response
logs. This presentation will display the results of the study,
includinganalysis
Global Issues
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performance (through examination of classroom audio recordings), andtheir responses
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to a post-study questionnaire. The possible implicationsforfuture teaching
Literature
Circles
will alsoresearchbe
Maintaining
contactpracticewith ourinvolving
peers and
conducting
qualitative
considered.
duringextended COVID distancing rules required novel approaches to datacollection. At the same time, these constraints taught us how to make th…
best of our circumstances: we had to cnd alternatives and learn how tocomplement these alternatives quickly and robustly. During this time,
Jonathanand
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Kyushu University

Read Your Way to Better English with the Oxf…
12:00
PM-12:25 PM
rd Reading
Club

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Graded readers provide many benects to learners, but how can technology
enhance the learning experience? In this workshop, we will explore
techniques for using e-books in different teaching approaches from whol…
class reading to ER, and how they can increase agency and motivation withstudents of all ages and levels. Try Oxford Reading Club for FREE! All
YoshikoHashimo…
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12:00
PM-12:25
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Low student motivation is a challenge in many foreign language
classrooms. This may be particularly true in contexts where a foreign
language is a required subject that is removed from the everyday …
experience of learners. This presentation will report on ongoing efforts tounderstand psychological resistance to foreign language learning in Indiaand in Japan. This includes the development of a survey instrument – The
Linguaculture Motivation Procler (LMP) – developed with the support of a
Joseph Shaules
Ishita Ray
grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education, and research into causes
Japan Intercultural I…
Business Communi…
of learner resistance. There will be a comparison of factors in India andJapan that contribute to resistance. In India, English is the key tounlocking better job opportunities. On the other hand, it continues to be a
status marker and a colonial remnant. Learners cnd it dibcult to accept
they need to learn the “language” because it means admitting that they arefrom less-privileged backgrounds. In Japan, obcial government policy
encourages
learning as a Making
path to internationalization
learners
Schemalanguage
and Memes:
Sense of yet
Langu…
often
feel
frustrated
the feeling that they make little actual progress.
12:00
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Culture,and
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the need forCitizenshipmore research into thepsychology
language learning resistance.
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Global citizenship education has recently been touted as an essential
aspect of foreign language education (MEXT, 2022). Consequently, at thesecondary level, activities that encourage analysis of global issues throug…
English have increased. Nevertheless, there remains a dearth of activities
that promote investigation of the relationship between language andDaniel Pearce
culture. Considering
these circumstances, the author implemented a
Shitennoji
University
semester-long university
course entitled English Expression through Song,centered on Anglo-American music of the cold-war era. The course aimed
to foster analytic ability of metaphor through translation, contextualized
within cultures and histories, to promote multiperspectivity (Kropman, vanBoxtel & Van Drie, 2020) and decentering (Candelier et al., 2012). While theteacher presented the sociohistorical context behind the music, thestudents
worked collaboratively
to interpret Throughand translate theSocial-Emotional
Learning
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lyrics.Through analyses of students' translations and post-lesson
12:00
PM-12:25
PM Learners
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for thisYoungreeections,presentation
discusses the importance of exploring
culturally
historicallyinformed memes (units of transmissible cultural
Teachingand
Younger
L…
information: Dawkins, 2006) in foreign language learning for intercultural
understanding,
how such explorations can help students update their
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linguistic and cultural schemas (frameworks for perceiving andPre-primaryandworld,
primary
age children
aretransferable
still developing
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and how theskillsfosteredthroughcourse might
contributeto theothers’
developmentof global
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own andemotions
citizens with agency.

and they require strategies to manage their emotions in …
order to both self-regulate and interact with others.
Goleman Alison(1995)Hasegawa
in Emotional Intelligence,suggests that
Martin Sedaghat
Niigata
University o…withteachers Rikkyo“blendUniversity
lessons on feelings andrelationships
other topics already taught.” The presenters will share theobjectives, process, and results of a joint classroom

research project focused on developing social-emotional
SpeechRecognition
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learning throughthe use ofand
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12:00
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L2 English
Writing AssignmentsCollege and Univer…

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Written feedback has been used for teaching in English writing courses forsome time. Despite its common use, researchers have not been able toagree on the effectiveness of this practice.The quality and quantity of …
feedback provided by teachers may vary depending on personal beliefs inthe value of feedback, commitment to the profession and/or the goals or
Simon
Aldrichsuccess of Katsuichiro-(Ken)…
the institution as well as the teacherâs abilityto
Toyo
University
Toyo
University
communicate with students. The meaningfulness of this feedback may
also vary among students due to their belief in the quality and value of theeducation they are receiving, the level of commitment to their studies, andhow they are able to respond to feedback. This presentation examines the
crst step of an effort to make the delivery of feedback on university
students' writing more meaningful and effective. It will start with asummaryof cndingslanguage
from past research
related to the effectivenessofStudent-led
community:
Collabora…
written feedback, followed by a description of how a survey to better
12:00
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veandbeyond-classunderstand
whatPM
students preferredlearningin written feedback was compiled.
Finallytheresults from the data collected through the survey will be
LearnerDevelopm…
presented. The cndings focus on clarity, detail, focus, frequency, andconnection
to assessment.
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The context of this narrative inquiry is a student-led 'French Table' , aKOweekly multi-lingual and cultural community held in our Self-Access Center(SAC) which aims at fostering members' interests and language abilities i…
French. Francophones and participants ourselves in the French community
in KUIS, we decided to collect community members' reeections, with theMarzinDiane (Murphey,
Raluy 1998) andhelp of two Emily
advising
tools - Language learning history
Kanda
University
of
…
Kanda
University
of in
… two
Wheel of language learning (Kato & Mynard, 2015) - and verbalised
individual interviews as part of a thematic analysis. We found that thecommunity allowed members to improve their oral skills in a recreatedFrancophone and multilingual immersion context, in which opportunities tolearn from and with others - echoing concepts of near-peer role modellingand community of practice, among others - impacted their concdence,motivation,and (Frenchlearnerand multilingual) identity. The
Students'
Sense
of Accomplishment
inoutcomesa Uni…
from this inquiry reveal interesting insights into how membersâ
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EnglishCourseinvolvement
in a PM
student-led
community
can have an impact on theirlanguagelearning
processes. We also believe that this study can provide
Mind, Brain,
and Ed…
language teachers with ideas on encouraging beyond-classroom
communication
and reeection opportunities among learners.
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ensure students feel like they accomplished something positive in theirEnglish classes. In positive psychology, the PERMA model (positive …
emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment) isoften used to talk about wellbeing. When students experience a sense ofBrent itWrightaccomplishment,
will affect their overall wellbeing and have a positive
Kanazawa
impact on their EnglishInstitutelearning.… This presentation will address
accomplishment by reporting on a study of 1st and 2nd year students in a
Japanese university taking a one-semester business English course.
Students reported on the sense of accomplishment they felt from thevarious activities they took part in during the course. In addition, they wereasked to consider their sense of accomplishment in other general
educationand major-specicc
Resultsexpectations,of which activities yielded
Study abroadand courses.
students'
an…
thehighestsenseof accomplishment will be summarized as well as the
12:00
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eties
and
experiences
implicationsof theseresults. The presentation will conclude withsuggestions
for how to consider studentsâ sense of accomplishment as
Study Abroad
teachers look ahead when preparing materials and activities for future
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In January 2023, 43 Japanese students returned home following a longterm 'study abroad' experience in Australia. Since the establishment of the
Global Early Childhood Education department, this was the crst group to …
successfully complete their 'study abroad' program without being affectedby the COVID-19 pandemic and government enforced closures. While in
Ayami
Kato
Landsberry
Australia, theirgoals
were to obtain a childcare Lauren
license, andto improve
Gakuen the
Unive…
Ohka
GakuenUnive…
their EnglishOhka
skills.Using
data collected in pre- andpost-'study
abroad'questionnaires, the students' expectations, anxieties, and experiences were
investigated. This presentation will present the results, discuss how thestudents' experience differed from their expectations, what anxieties they

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experienced, what they learnt, and how they felt the experience changedthem.
It will offurther
examine how,Social
or if, they Language
felt the experience
would
Surveyuniversity
Learnin…
change their future plans and career paths, and whether would consider
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Programs
in Kansaiour students needs and 'study
studying abroad (SLLP)
again. By understanding
abroad'Collegeexperiences,and Univer… we can better prepare them for both their 'study
abroad' experience before they depart Japan, and job hunting when they
return. CUE PIE
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To provide opportunities for students to use English in a non-academic
setting, many Japanese universities are creating Social Language Learning
Programs (SLLPs). SLLPs are extracurricular programs where students c…
gather to socialize in English by playing games, engaging in small talk,having parties, listening to guest speakers, etc. SLLPs can vary from small
CameronRomneyinformal programs
such
as eating lunch with their teachers to large scale
Kyoto
Women's
Uni…
programs that have dedicatedstaff and facilities. In an effort to determine
how widespread SLLPs are in the Kansai Area, and to determine the typesof activities and events being utilized, a survey of university homepages(n=168) was conducted. Results show that 51 universities in Kansai havean SLLP, with some universities having multiple programs. The mostcommon type of activity was some form of unstructured free conversation,
followedby preplanned
activities such
watching movies orJourne…
listening toUnpackingFeminism:
AnasExploratory
pop songs, followed by special events like Halloween parties. This
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Gender Awareness …

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In this session, the presenter will share how the challenges of his crst
semester with a group of advanced-level, third-year women students led
him to let the student's voices shape the contents of the second semeste…
Their demands for more challenging, engaging, and relevant content lead
him to explore gender studies and gender awareness within language
Chhayankdhar
Si…
learning classrooms.
Being ina women's university presented a unique
opportunity for using the gender lens to give the students' lived
experiences and voices center stage in the classes. However, being male,the teacher realized his approach to this course had to be student-centeredbecause he, being the only male in the class, did not have the same lived
experiences as his female students. At the same time, the students
seemed wary of the term feminism. They expressed hesitation or refusal
when it came to identifying as a feminist or discussing the relevance offeminismin their lives.
Thischallenges
situation led to him
designing a coursethat
Possibilities
anda"ordedby COIL…
made
use
of
TED
talks,
group
discussions,drama
activities,
clm
reviews,
1:40
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andEnglish
biographieslanguageof famous womento help the students discuss gender in
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various contexts ranging from cction to real life, from global to local, andIrrespective
ofto
where
you are, the past few years have posed sudden,
from the past
the present.
unprecedented challenges to language learners, with COVID-19 severely
restricting international mobility, thus affecting the possibilities of studyin…
overseas. In order t address this challenge, I turned to Collaborative Online
International Learning (COIL) in 2022 as a viable innovative pedagogical
Mitsuyo Sakamoto
option to foster interactive language learning among students in Japan
Sophia University
and the US. In this talk, I will crst introduce what COIL is , and then take up
my own project as an example of what COIL teaching can look like.
Speciccally, while COIL affords language learners with rich language
learning experiences, the project also aimed at exploring how it can help
eradicate native-speaker norms and actualize a critical, decolonial
language practice, because a major dibculty often faced in teaching
English to Japanese learners is how, sadly, raciolinguistic, hegemonic
Activating
a conscious
understanding
ofnative
pea…
ideologies
are entrenchedand prevalent
among them, assuming
2:50
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speakers
fromPM
the
Inner
Circle as a paragon - the ultimate, perfect, ideal
e beyond
theclassroom
English native speaker model.
Global Issues in La…
Insteadof relegating Japanese English learners simply as non-native
speakers
thereby
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ER perpetuating this harmful ideology, by engaging with
American learners of Japanese, the study aimed to nurture JapaneseThis poster session will highlight the unique features and outcomes of four
students' self-respect, to legitimize their English output, and to create avariations of the Peace Wall project held at a university school festival.
space for reevaluation and reconceptualization of a precarious, idealized
Each Peace Wall created an experiential learning space where student …
notion of a white, 'perfect' English native speaker.
volunteers encouraged and developed critical understandings of peacewith a larger community. The project originated within a language
Kirk aJohnsonclassroom withtask devised to allow students agency to collaboratively
Chiba
of T…
decne, expand
andInstitutenegotiateunderstandings of various key terms in peaceeducation. Reardon (2000) suggests that explicitly studying theMS

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2:50
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emiPM-3:15
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In Japanese universities, zemi are small seminar classes where students
deepen their understanding of their chosen celd through extensive group
discussion and independent study. Zemi taught by non-Japanese langua…
teachers often focus on language-related topics such as language
acquisition or education. The role of L2 in such classes can differ
Patrick
Conawaydepending on
the students'
language procciency. Students with lower
Shokei
GakuinUniv…
procciency likely require extensive support to be able to manage suchseminar contents in their L2. This presentation explains how the reading
discussion protocol Active Book Dialog (ABD) was used to support
students with low-intermediate English procciency in their reading for azemi focused on second language acquisition. After comparing ABD withother common group reading formats, I will illustrate how it can bePC

An
Ecosystem of Development through Podc…
implemented in class. In the latter half of the presentation, I describe how
2:50
PM-3:30
PMIllustrated
ABD
can scaffold
L2 reading. FirstExploration
I describe my own experience as an L2
asting:An

Japanese reader transitioning from short magazine articles to reading a
Teacher Developm…
full-length non-cction book. Then I describe the experience of my students
andhow
ABDBilallowed them to understand and engage with reading
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materials of signiccantly greater dibculty than they had read during theirPodcasts are mechanisms that afford language teachers the possibility to
crst two years of university study.
generate and sustain reeective peer interaction. Through implementing
podcasting projects, hosts are compelled to engage in preparation …
activities, such as self-directed research reading, and hone critical skills,
such as questioning and investigating each otherâ s beliefs. Yet, it is not
Matthew
W. Turner
Matthew
Schaefer
only the podcast
presentersthat may directly reap
the benects
from such
Tokyo
Universityof…
SophiaUniversity
professional development initiatives. Listeners may also exploit podcasts
as an informal learning material by internalising ideas expressed andconsidering their own positions. Aside from being used for professional
development purposes, podcasts also offer multimodal and accessible
scholarly output opportunities for guests to share their academic output
dialogically, and for researchers to use the audio texts as sources forpotential
citation.Competition
This poster presentation
will conceptualiseandBook Talk
to Readand Connect…
illustrate the dynamics of a multidirectional ecosystem of development
2:50
PM-3:30PMn
EFL
Reading
through
podcasting.
TheClasspresenters, drawing on their crsthand experiencesofExtensive
creatingReading
a podcast, will explore various spheres of ineuence inherent in
the practice. Using artefacts and interactive diagrams, the presenters willshow howlistenership
may affect the public form of reeective discourse
S203
LD aMWER
on
podcasts,
how suchoutwardly
triggerdifferent
Extensive
Reading(ER) conversations
is one of the effective
ways
to improvelearners'
contributions
to
the
celd,
and
explorefurthercharacteristics
their class,reading and language skills. To incorporate ER activities in a ofreading
podcast'developmental
ecosystem.
I share thissgamiced
teaching
approach inspired by the 'Bibliobattle' book …

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I share this gamiced teaching approach inspired by the 'Bibliobattle' book …
talk competition. It aims to increase students' interactions and to makestudents intentional readers.Bibliobattle is a social and cultural book
Yuka
Jibiki by the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto
review gamedevelopedof Sacred…has specicc rules to play. Each presenter
University inUniversity
Japan. Bibliobattle
talks about their favorite book to the audience, and the audience andpresenters vote for the champion book of the day at the end of allpresentations. The Bibliobattle has specicc obcial rules to play, however,this book talk competition in this presentation modiced the rule according
to the class size and schedule. It is a capstone activity in the crst-year
mandatory
Englishclass in college
under the campus-widestandardized
Buildinga Google
Workspace
That Keeps
St…
syllabus.
EvenPMin a unique situation with limited time, it allows students to2:50
PM-3:30
dents
up
to Datehave a personalized,
self-paced learning experience and they enjoy sharing
stories
withAssistedclassmatesas they gain concdence in their English reading
Computer…
skills.
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Especially since the pandemic, students have become relatively competentin the use of email and basic productivity applications such as those in
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and it is possible to easily create a …
space where everything related to a given course is available to them. This

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practically-oriented poster session will explain and demonstrate the use of
Google Workspace applications to build a transparent learning
George MacLean
environment. It demonstrates an everything-in-one-place Google Sheet for
University of the Ry…
class work, homework, feedback and anything else that might regularly beneeded. The use of Google Forms and Sheets to accelerate feedback willbrieey be explained and demonstrated thereafter. Finally, I will show an
example of a grade book that permits students to monitor their progress ina course and to access and submit incomplete assignments. The outcome
for viewers of this session should be basic knowledge about Google
Workspace
applications
that promotecreativity
accelerated feedbackandConnections
betweenand languag…
transparency,
as well as knowledge about how to build a dynamic
2:50
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pro!ciency
spreadsheet that can be shared with students (all the while preserving
anonymity).
Intercultural Comm…
S504 CALL ICLIntercultural competence and creativity are essential for personal
development, connection with others, and overall happiness. As our world
becomes increasingly globalized and interconnected, these skills are …
becoming more important for individuals to possess. Educational
institutions worldwide, including the Japanese government, are
Healy of these skills and are placing a greater
recognizingSandra
the importance
Kyoto
T…
emphasis on
themInstitutein their ofcurriculum.
Culture can play a complex role inthe development of these skills. Culture can provide individuals with asense of belonging and comfort, as it aligns their social behaviour withthat of their group. However, it can also limit creativity through adherence
to rules and routinization. Intercultural experiences have the potential toenhance creativity by introducing new perspectives and connections
between ideas.an
Studieshave
also found a positive
correlation between
Creating
EFL
speaking
self-e$cacy
scale t…
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Mind, Brain, and Ed…

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Students' English foreign language speaking ability is usually assessed
through formal speaking assessments. However, such high-stresssituations often cause anxiety in students which can negatively affect …
motivation and attitudes towards language learning. It is therefore
beneccial for teachers to have alternative methods to evaluate speaking
Dawn
Kobayashi
ability. Bandura(1977)
decnes self-ebcacy (SE), a core component of
OnomichiCitysocial cognitive theory, as Unive…
the concdence a person feels in their ability toperform specicc tasks. Self-ebcacy level has been consistently found to
be a powerful indicator of success in various domains and thus provides auseful lens to assess student learning progress. In this poster
presentation, the presenter will report the results of the pilot stage of
research to develop a SE scale for EFL speaking. A questionnaire of SE
items
adaptedfrom Common
European
Framework of Reference (CEFR)
CriticalThinking:
It's
the sub-text!
indicators was administered to Japanese university students and tested
2:50
PM-3:15 PM Drawing from key research cndings from self-ebcacy infor effectiveness.
languagelearning, the presenter will discuss the key successes,
Critical Thinking
challenges, and cndings of the study so far.
S503 CT TBL
Critical thinking is a vitally important concept that has sadly been hijacked
as an educational buzzword and misused to the point of rendering it nearmeaningless. And yet it remains a needed yet undeveloped thinking "skill"…
in people interacting in any language: native, second or foreign. Criticalthinking entails getting an understanding of the subtext: the assumptions
Alastair Graham-…
and veiled messages
that are loaded into all forms of discourse. This
ABAX
Ltd.
workshop will explore this further.

Educating Teachers in Skills for Promoting R…
2:50
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lectionThrough
Dialogue
Teacher Developm…

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The emphasis on lifelong and active learning in current
MEXT guidelines underscore the increasing importance of
reeective abilities for learners at all levels as we look …
forward. Dialogue, particularly when initiated and structured
intentionally,
can enhance such reeection (Brockbank &Isra Wongsarnpig…
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Kanda University of …

E"ective Whiteboard Strategies
2:50 PM-3:30 PM
Teacher Developm…

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This poster will display ideas on how teachers can effectively improve their
whiteboard usage in this age of blended learning. Design strategies will stirideas in every teacher on how to consider their own current usage and be …
inspired to use their board more effectively, whether using the board
exclusively or blending it with their digital materials. Some simple andAnthony-Brian
Ga…combined with directed information eow, toeffective back-to-basics
usage,
University
best conveyMeijo
information
to students. Whether you are a veteran teacher or
new to teaching, this poster will hope to help you see how useful this asset
can be in your classroom. Progressing from this, you may even alter yourdigital whiteboard usage and consider the serious issues that somestudents have with colour and style from a seated position in yourclassroom. Think of the students who sit at the back of the class, thosewithlow visual acuity,and those that simply
loseusingtrack of where
lessonExploringinternational
datingthe theCont…
is going. Develop your design to the point where students are
2:50
PM-3:30PM
ast
Culturephotographing
yourMethodboard before they leave the classroom because it is so
usefulandinteresting.
Intercultural Comm…
S202 PRAG SA
In Japan in 2015, 1 in every 30 marriages were international couples.
Although the numbers have been decreasing, there are approximately
20,000 such intercultural marriages per year. When studying a foreign …
language, our students encounter people from all over the world, and it isreasonable that they may become interested in persons from otherDonna
Fujimoto
cultures. Thereare clearly
different perceptions Margaret
and social Kim
rules involved in
OtemaeUniversity
Osaka
Jogakuin
Uni…
"
befriending, dating, or marrying someone from a different culture. An
effective way of exploring this complex area is to use the Contrast Culture
Method (CCM).The CCM is an experiential approach that delves into
previously unspoken beliefs and dearly held convictions about our lives.
This poster session will explain the background of this method (developedin the 1960s), and outline how it has been used in Japanese classrooms,
businesses,
at many conferences.
The topic ofinternationalPerce…
FactorialandDi"erences
BetweenStudent
dating/marriage
explored based on actual reactions of people in
2:50
PM-3:30
PMwill beAbroad
tions
of
Study
Japan in recent CCM workshops. At Programs
this session, we hope to engage withconference
participants about this very interesting and challenging topic.
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S202 PRAG SA
In recent years, the Japanese government has developed large-scale
subsidy projects for universities, focusing on human resource developmentat universities, international exchangeand student career development, a…
promotion of academic language learning. On the other hand, according toan announcement by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
MichaelKellandandTechnology(2015),
the number of Japanese international students has
Tokai
University
been on the decline since 2004 despite the establishment of such afoundation for advanced human resource development. Ota (2011)
explains that one of the factors was universities did not understand the
purpose of those studying abroad. This presentation will show an
exploratory factor analysis on individual survey items in 2020 and 2021.

MK

The
results, comparedwithin the last 2inyears,
will Textbooks:
indicate that students'
GenderRepresentation
ELT
An …
perception towards the reasons and the needs to participate in study
2:50
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ntersectional
Perspective
abroad has been changing.
The results, from a sociological perspective,
will
promoteauthentic,
student-centered,and cost-effective program
Gender Awareness …
development policies that improve upon existing programs.
S507 GALE LiLT ER
Textbooks exert a strong ineuence in learning, second only to teachers so
we should expect that textbook materials eschew biases or stereotypes
and instead represent gender and gender roles in a fair and balanced …
manner. However, research indicates that textbooks around the worldcontinue to exhibit patterns of insidiously systematic gender bias
DonnaEthnicity
Tatsukiintersects with genderHaruoka
Keiko(Blumberg, 2015).
and whenout of balance
Kobe
City
University…
can promote racial, national and gender inequalities, yet it is rare to cnd
foreign language textbook analyses focusing on both gender and ethnicity
as social, cultural and educational constructs. Research by Song (2013) ofEnglish textbooks used in the Korean national curriculum found that adisproportionate number of main or dominating characters â were played
by non-Koreans, speciccally by white, mostly American, malesâ(Blumberg,p.5). This presentation
reports on anof images…
Global 2015,
Workforce:
Perspectives
ofanalysis
Japaneseand dialogues in four popular MEXT approved junior high textbooks from
2:50
PM-3:30
PM perspectivesndSingaporean
Businesspeople
the intersectionalof gender and ethnicity. Based on theseresults,
guidelinesforteachers
and materials writers will be offered. This
Global Issues in La…
type of research is of interest because textbooks inadvertently contributeto cultural
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MW ER and personal biases that learners may, unwittingly
andabsorb
a byproductof study.
The unfortunately,
development of
globalasworkers
continues
to be an urgent need in bothHK

education and industry in Japan. The Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) decnes the concept and criteria …
of 'global workers' (essentially, people who can actively work in a global
environment); However, it is not known if global workers have been
MitakaYonedaChristopher
Valv…
fostered successfully,
or even
if these criteria arein reality
required for
Okinawa
Christian…
Mukogawa
Women'…
those who work in genuinely international environments. Throughtheperspectives of Japanese and Singaporean businesspeople, this study
attempted to identify what is believed to be required of global workers.
Individual and group interviews were conducted with Japanese L1
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writing
Computer Assisted …

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This mixed-methods study approaches the differences between learnerand proccient argumentative writing by building a content-controlledmonolingual comparable corpus (CCMCC) that contains learner-teacher …
sample pairs of the same semantic content. Twenty-seven learner samples
were collected from 27 Chinese university students who each wrote on one
Judy-(Qiao) Wang
topic from the second writing task of IELTS Academic. To generate
Waseda University
content-controlled teacher samples, an experienced teacher revised or
rewrote each learner sample after concrming the ideas learners intended
to express through individual and face-to-face communication with eachlearner. Then, a native speaker checked the language of the teacher
samples. In data analysis, each learner-teacher sample pair was analyzed
using Coh-Metrix to generate statistics in 45 indices under text length,
syntax, lexicon,fromand cohesion,
after whicha shortlist of indices of both
Lessonstailoringa rubric
statistically and practically signiccant differences was identiced.
2:50 PM-3:15 PM
Qualitatively, the researchers identiced the differences through side-by-side
comparisonsof sample
pairs and coded the important patterns in the
Other Language
Ed…
differences to explore their underlying reasons. This approach generated
S508
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Vocabresults from previous corpus-based comparative
different
quantitative
writingstudies, suchas thetheineffectivenessof cohesion
indicestoThis
presentation
narrates
process of creatinga rubric,
implementing
distinguishandQualitative
furtherit,
and then learner
reviewingitsproccienteffect in writing.
a Spanishlanguageanalysis
classroom.
Prior torevealed
noteworthy
cndings
including
the
lack
of
concisioninlearnerthe pandemic, students were required to submit weekly writing …
writingand learners'
unfamiliarity
with using prepositional
phrases toassignments.
At the endof each assignment,
individual handwritten
express actions.
Thetoadvantages,
andThisimplicationsof thisfeedback
was givenstudents onlimitations
their reports.
process wasvery
Carlos
Budding
approachare discussed.
time
consuming.
When classes were changed online, a new system of
Akita
International… was created. The time required to give
submitting and assessing reports
students individual feedback increased. The feedback provided was often
repetitive from week to week and from student to student. After one
semester, a new system of evaluating student reports was created by the
tailoring and implementation of a rubric to address the most common
errors being produced by the students. The main positive result from usingtherubric was theconsiderableof time requiredfor grading.
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education, it is critical to examine our formative contexts andintersectional social locations through self-reeexivity. This is important not

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Yaya Yao
Kyushu University

Machine Translation and English Education fr…
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Developments in the accuracy of machine translation (MT) have brought
its role in language education into sharper focus. Researchers have foundit can be both beneccial and detrimental. A key issue seems to be how it i…
used, as it can support learning when used critically (Bahri & Mahadi, 2016;
Kol, Schcolnik, & Spector-Cohen, 2018), but it' s problematic when
Louisecheating
Ohashi(Alm & Watanabe, 2021; Correa, 2014). This
teachers suspect
Gakushuin
University
qualitative study
examinedteachers' MT-related views and practices
through interviews. The participants were 24 university-level English
teachers in Japan who had previously participated in a survey on MT
conducted with 153 language teachers (Ohashi, 2022). Both deductive andinductive coding were used to analyse the interview data. Taguette(https://www.taguette.org/) and Word were used cnd themes throughmultiplerounds ofthe
coding.
This presentation
reports
on the following
Measuringextentelicited
imitation
aids s…
themes: 1) teachers' experiences of using MT in their personal lives and2:50
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courses; 2) theirevaluation
MT from the perspectives of personal user
andeducator;
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MT by students; 4) their actual and preferred MT usage guidelines; 5) ways
they
supported
MT usage; 6) their beliefs on how universities
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provideinsights
languageeducators
andspeech-to-text(STT)
technology
forthatgamicedelicited
imitation
activities.
administratorsmay
cnd
usefulwhen
planning
courses
andtraining.
The experiment consisted of short to moderate duration in-app elicited …
imitation treatments with non-digital control groups of similar time
periods. The treatment was carried out on mobile phones in a customized
Omarapp.
Massoud
Cvitkovic
English learning
Data was collected on theBob
numberof pauses, number
TeikyoUniversityof syllables, utterance time, phonation time, and speech rate which allowed
the calculation of the speed euency, and breakdown euency. The STTtechnology gave learners customized feedback on each attempt promoting
error correction and repetition. Immediate, granular, and global tracking
was employed so that users could monitor their progress. We approachedour research question in two parts. Part one quanticed the breakdowneuency
and speed
euencyin low andintermediate-levelspeakers and t…
Polishingthemirror:Developing
a re#ection
characterized their speech patterns. Part two measured the effect of STT
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Studies have reported and addressed the impact of emotional labor inlanguage teaching and learning (de Ruiter et al., 2021; Kariou et al., 2021;
Purper et al., 2022). However, this area is underexplored in the context of …
advising in language learning. While day-to-day advising addresses
learners' emotions, less opportunity is given for advisors to explore theirs.
There are tools to help advisees reeect on emotions, yet, there are no tools
Emily Marzin
Christine Pember…
speciccally designed to help advisors reeect on their emotions during
Kanda University of …
Kanda University of …
advising sessions. To address this, we developed a tool to help learning
advisors (LAs) reeect on advising sessions based on Gibbsâ Reeective
Cycle (Gibbs, 1988) and a model of emotional labor from occupational
health psychology (Totterdell & Holman, 2003). This poster will show how
this tool was designed, piloted, and revised according to feedback fromtwelve LAs at a private Japanese university. It is hoped that this tool willhelp
not onlyadvisors, advisor
mentors,
but also
educators better
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Selecting Your Own Writing Project: Student …
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College and Univer…

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In order to increase student motivation and facilitate writing euency, EFL
college students were given an opportunity to choose their own writingclass cnal writing project from three categories: song lyric writing, movie …
review, and Wikipedia entry. Prior to selecting the project format, students
were given sample materials, instructions, and task sheets for all three
Ayano
Valvonapossible tasks.
Aftercompleting the project, all students’ work was posted
Okinawa University
on Google Classroom
for peer-review. A post-project survey revealed thathaving control over the writing format was viewed positively (100%) and it
was the most popular assignment that semester. In addition, students
reeected that they approached the cnal project differently from other essay
writing assignments because they had control over the writing style andtopic, and they felt a sense of accomplishment. Students also reported
thatcompletingcnal project
madeMedium
them want toof
engagein expressing
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themselves
inPM
English. In open-ended feedback, students responded
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sense of accomplishment,” “I liked how we could choosematerials,”andsimilar. The presenter will explore future directions of theCollege andUniver…
research and classroom implications for similar writing projects. Students’
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Research on Medium of Instruction (MOI) has found that non-Japanese
university English teachers teach mainly in English while Japaneseteachers use both languages. However, our survey in the crst year of the …
pandemic found that when classes shifted online both Japanese and nonJapanese teachers used more Japanese to help students with technical
Eleanor
CarsonWilley experiences
problems. The
present
study examined English Ian
teachers'
Matsuyama
Univers…
Kagawawith MOI during
the second
year of the pandemic,
when University
many teachers
were teaching online and face-to-face classes. We used a Google Formsurvey to inquire about respondents' perceptions of their MOI in bothonline and face-to-face classes. A total of 173 university English teachers
responded (110 non-Japanese and 63 Japanese). Findings suggest thatteachers returned to pre-pandemic MOI patterns, with non-Japaneseteachers
using more English
and JapaneseteachersThroughbalancing bothColl…
Transforming
Teacher
Practices
languages in online classes. Interestingly, both groups reported using more
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borative
Autoethnography
Japanese in face-to-faceclasses than in online classes. Both groups werealso
ableand
to makeuse of online functions (such as Chat) to use their
College
Univer…
teaching languages in novel ways. These cndings indicate that teachers
were
to adapt
S404able
CUE
OLE to online instruction and that online instruction may
offer
advantages toteachers and learners
terms
ofinvestigated
MOI.
This collaborative
autoethnographic(CAE) in
study
has
how
three tertiary-level teachers of an English language lecture preparation
course in a Japanese university engaged with each other over a two-year …
period from 2020 to 2022 regarding their approaches to the adoption of aContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach to syllabus
TuWith two new teachers basedJulia
design and Li-hsinteaching.
in Christmas
a newly established
University
ofNiigat…
Universityof Niigat…
department and the other teacher in a more established department,
insights were gained through the unfolding online CAE and face-to-facediscourse into their respective thoughts and motivations underpinning theirpedagogical philosophies and interpretations of the CLIL approach to meettheir departmental and students' requirements. Key cndings revealed thatteacher backgrounds and experience with CLIL, as well as institutional
shiftsin curriculum Practices
aims, have all directly
and indirectly
shaped current
Turn-taking
DuringPeer-to-peer
Int…
course design and pedagogy and revealed similarities and differences in
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inCLIL
Speaking
interpretationsofover time. OfTest
signiccance is how the CAE itself
emergedas aUniver…
vital community-building forum for the teachers themselves
College andand acted as a site for varying levels of transformation in their pedagogicalpractices.
The SA
presentation will discuss the outcomes of the project and
S202
PRAG
offer
practical
about
the processof using
for reeexive
In recentyears,suggestions
conversation
analysishas emerged
as aCAEwidelyadoptedteaching.
approach for investigating the micro-level dynamics of learning andIWteaching in second language acquisition, particularly with respect to the …
interactions of ESL/EFL learners in classroom activities. Some scholars
have also applied conversation analysis techniques to exam settings toTilabi Yibifu
explore turn-taking
practices between examiners and test takers. However,National
it is also essential
toInstitution
investigate…how EFL learners take turns in peer-topeer interaction during speaking tests. Therefore, in my presentation, I will
share novice Japanese EFL learners' general peer interaction patterns in
speaking tests at a technical school. Speciccally, I will present on how
Japanese EFL learners allocate the next turn and the type of turnTY

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Integrating L1 English-speaking online interns from other institutions into
EFL curricula provides all involved with a wealth of learning opportunities.
Some EFL students in Japan study at institutions or in programs in which …
they have few or no peers whose L1 is not Japanese. Moreover, students
seeking internships in Japan have found placement dibcult to achieve due
Geoff
Carrof the pandemic. Online internships can be a way
to the ongoing
effects
Associate
Professor
forward.This
presentation
procles English-speaking interns from anAustralian university who provided journal writing support and assignment
support for 1st year EFL classes, as well as intercultural perspectives andlanguage scaffolding in CLIL format seminars at a Japanese university
over the course of two semesters. The presentation will feature three case

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