JASAL2022 National Conference Co-sponsored by Akita International University

Betsy Lavolette (PhD,
Michigan State University) is
Associate Professor of English
at Kyoto Sangyo University.
Her research focuses on
language learning and
teaching with technology,
professional development,
language learning spaces, and
forging connections between
scholars and literatures of
such spaces in the US, Japan,
and globally. Formerly, she
directed the Gettysburg
College Language Resource
Center and facilitated the
Kyoto JALT Social Justice
Working Group. She is the
co-editor of two volumes on
language spaces (Language
Center Handbook, 2018;
Language Center Handbook
2021, 2021).

Ashley R. Moore (PhD,
University of British
Columbia) is Assistant
Professor of TESOL at
Wheelock College of Education
and Human Development,
Boston University. A major
strand of his research focuses
broadly on queer issues in
language education and works
towards the realisation of
queer- and trans-affirming
language education for all. His
empirical and theoretical work
within this strand has been
published inThe Modern
Language Journal, TESOL
Quarterly,ESL Journal, and the
Journal of Language, Identity
and Education. He worked in
Japanese higher education for
nine years, including five years
as the Director of the
Language Learning Center at
Osaka Institute of Technology.

Satoko Watkins (MA, Hawai’i
Pacific University) is a
Principal Learning Advisor in
the Self-Access Learning
Centre at Kanda University of
International Studies. Her
research interests include
learner autonomy, advising,
self-directed language
learning, learning
communities, and inclusive
practice. In her centre, she has
developed student-led
prosocial learning
communities through peer
advising services, tandem
language exchange programs,
interest-based learning
communities, and student-led
events. Her recent project on
training autonomy-supportive
student leaders is supported
by KAKEN and its first content
was published in JASAL
Journal.

Registration for non-presenting participants

If you would like to attend the conference (either on-site or online) without presenting, please complete this registration form. We appreciate early registration to help with the planning process. Please note that on-site participants registering AFTER Friday, September 30th are not guaranteed a place on the charter bus to the venue from Akita station, and may have to take local transportation. The payment deadline for on-site participants ONLY is the day of the conference, and cash payments will be accepted on-site. For online participants, please register and submit payment by 9pm on Thursday, October 20th, in order to receive the Zoom link for the conference. You will not be able to attend online until we have been able to confirm your payment. Please note that this deadline is one day earlier than we originally stated in the Call for Presentations.