JASAL 2025 National Conference

JASAL 2025 will take place at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Beppu, Oita, on Saturday, October 11, 2024.

Format: Hybrid (on-site conference with partial online participation possible)

Schedule

Friday, October 10, 2025
SALC Tour at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Beppu, Oita. (Approx. time: 16:00–17:30)

Saturday, October 11, 2025
JASAL2025 Conference at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Beppu, Oita.
(Approx. time: 09:00–18:00)
Followed by Evening Networking Reception (details to follow, approx. time: 20:00–22:00)

Sunday, October 12, 2025
Beppu Tour & Post Conference Reflection over Lunch(Approx. time: 10:00–14:00)

Plenary Talk

Addressing affect in self-access learning settings
Dr. Maria Giovanna Tassinari
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Conference Theme

Emotions in Self-Access Language Learning

As anyone who has spent any time learning a language knows, managing emotions is a vital part of the process. Language learning can lead to anxiety, but also great joy, and sustaining motivation is not always straightforward. This is especially the case in self-access environments, where various affective factors can influence the degree to which learners engage with the affordances offered by these spaces, and how they interact with other users. For self-access practitioners, considering emotions can affect the design of our spaces, the services offered, the role of staff and the physical (or virtual) set-up of the facilities, among other factors.

Call for Papers

At this year’s JASAL conference, we invite you to share your own practices and research on the role of emotions in your self-access contexts, and how the consideration of emotions has shaped your spaces.

We welcome submissions on this and other self-access related topics, such as:

Managing and administrating self-access centres
Learning advising/counselling/coaching
SAC design and layout
Self-access and curriculum, learning program design
Learning communities and learner involvement in SACs
Student perspectives on self-access language learning (SALL)
Virtual self-access
Influence of AI on self-access
Assessment of self-access SALL
Research design in SALL
Professional development for SALL / Learning advisor education
Promotion of SACs & SALL
Lifelong learning
Study abroad & SALL

Presentation Formats

We are accepting proposals for the following kinds of presentations. Please note that at this year’s conference we will have a limited number of online presentation slots available.

Research presentation (on-site or online) (20+5 mins)
Practices presentation (on-site or online) (15+10mins)
Workshop (on-site only) (45 mins)
Poster session (on-site only)

When submitting your proposal, please indicate if you are only able to accept an online presentation slot. All presenters should be JASAL members at time of registration. (To join JASAL, please send us an email, and include the information requested on the website.)

We welcome submissions in both English and Japanese. Please note that each presenter should be the lead presenter on only ONE submission, and may appear as a co-presenter on only one other submission.

Undergraduate students are welcome to submit to one of these formats with a member of staff (faculty member or administrator), but we encourage these students to participate in the dedicated student conference and other student-centred events, where they will have more opportunities to interact with peers.