JALT2026

JALT's 52nd Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning will be held Nov. 20-22, 2026 in Nagoya (map).

Registration is open! https://events.jalt.org/event/73/registrations

Early Bird Preregistration ends Saturday, October 31. (For presenters, the deadline is September 30th.)

The 3-day regular early bird prices are:

23,000 yen for JALT members;
40,000 yen for non-JALT members;
discounts available for students and seniors (age 65 and older)

September 26: The 2026 JALT Vocabulary SIG Symposium in Fukuoka

The 2026 Vocabulary Symposium will be held at Kyushu Sangyo University (九州産業大学, in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka; map) in Fukuoka on September 26th. Details: https://jaltvocab.weebly.com

They have an exciting line up of invited papers (John Maurice Gayed, Satoru Uchida, Chris Cooper, and Moon Takano) on technology/AI in L2 Vocabulary/Lexis, to be discussed by Atsushi Mizumoto.

October 17: The 2026 JALT Study Abroad SIG Conference in Fukuoka

The call for presentations is open for the SA SIG conference, to be held October 17, 2026 at Kyushu Sangyo University (九州産業大学, in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka; map). They invite presentation proposals on study abroad both outbound and inbound. Presentations may be delivered in English or Japanese. Deadline: Thursday, September 17th.

November 1: The 2026 3T Summit is coming to Kumamoto!

Teaching, Textbooks, and Technology

The JALT Material Writer's SIG welcomes authors, EdTech developers, teachers, researchers, and publishers to join us for a great event at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto (PUK). The call for presentation proposals is open. Deadline: Sunday, September 27, 2026.

May 15-16, 2027: PanSIG is coming to Kyushu!

The JALT PanSIG 2027 Conference will be held May 15-16, 2027, at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture.

If you've never attended JALT's second-largest conference, this is a great opportunity close to Fukuoka.

The call for presentations usually opens in November or December. See https://pansig.org for details.

About us:

Fukuoka JALT is a chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), an NPO that is dedicated to promoting excellence in language learning, teaching, and research by providing opportunities for those involved in language education to meet, share, and collaborate.

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