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JASAL 2024 National Conference

Call for papers

JASAL 2024 will take place at Soka University, on Saturday, October 26, 2024.

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

Schedule

Friday, October 25, 2024 (afternoon)

We hope to be able to offer a SALC tour in the Tokyo area in the afternoon before the conference. We will confirm this information as soon as we are able to do so.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

09:00-18:00: JASAL2024 Conference at Soka University (1-236 Tangi-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-8577). Click here for access information)

19:00-21:00 (approximate times): Conference Networking Dinner. Details to follow.

Sunday, October 27, 2024 

Post-conference activity is being planned by the site team. Details to follow.

Submit a Proposal

Submissions are accepted until Saturday, July 27th, 2024. Please check the Call for Papers below.

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Please submit your proposal here.

Travel Bursaries

JASAL supports its membership by providing registration waivers and travel bursaries to JASAL members without institutional funding and undergraduate/postgraduate students for participation in the annual conference. If you meet the criteria for eligibility below and desire to apply for a travel bursary, please apply using the online form on the conference webpage. Members of the JASAL Executive Board will review all applications and award bursaries as we are able. Please note that bursary amounts are dependent on a variety of unknown factors such as conference revenue and estimated travel costs of all bursary applicants, and may not cover the full cost of travel. We are unable to cover accommodation. Criteria for eligibility:

  1. I am a JASAL member or undergraduate student.
  2. I do not have a source of funding
    (e.g., institutional budget, research grant) that can cover my travel costs.
  3. I am willing to write a summary of my experience at the conference for publication in JASAL Journal or another publication. (Details will be given to successful applicants.)

We particularly welcome applications from members new to JASAL, undergraduate or postgraduate students, ALTs, or other non-tertiary sector educators.  
Please apply for the bursary using this form by 31st August 2024.

Call for Papers: SISAC Conference Proceedings

Thank you to everyone who participated in and made the recent Student Involvement in Self Access Centers Conference in Nagoya an astounding success! It was great to see so many students talking passionately about their SACs and exchanging ideas about how to make them even better. We hope to be able to hold similar events in the future. Thanks once again to Risa and her team of students at Sugiyama Jogakuen University for a superb job in organising it all!

In order to spread the word even further and keep the conversation going about student involvement in SACs, we’d like to announce a Call for Papers for a Conference Proceedings.

SiSAC Call for Papers

This conference proceedings will be read by people who couldn’t attend the actual conference, so it’s a great opportunity to share your ideas and suggestions with people all over Japan who are interested in SACs and Learning Centres. We also hope to help authors publish their papers in respected academic journals.

Teachers/advisors/managers: please encourage your students to submit a paper for this volume!

The editors would like to suggest the 3 following kinds of paper for submission:

  1.  a summary of your presentation content
  2.  a conference report, giving details of the different presentations that you saw with some of your reflections
  3.  a reflective report on your experiences at the conference – what you learned and how you would like to change and improve your SAC based on the ideas you got from the conference.

Papers should be around 750 words. The deadline is 6th May, 2013. Please send your submissions to studentconference2013ATgmail.com.

All submissions will be reviewed by the editors before publication.

We look forward to reading your submissions.

Call for Presentations: JASAL Forum at JALT 2013

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
for the JASAL Forum at JALT2013, Kobe (October 25-28, 2013)

Self-access and the lifelong voyage of learning
Self-access learning can be a lifelong endeavour, starting at any age, and continuing far beyond graduation from an institution. This process is easily likened to a voyage, with learners going in different directions and progressing at different speeds depending on a variety of environmental factors. The self-access centre can be seen as a port, with learners coming to refuel with ideas, restock with learning materials, share stories of their adventures, and possibly chart out a new direction for the future. Feel free to interpret this year’s JALT theme in any way that is relevant to you and your context.

 We invite submissions on areas including, but not limited to:

  • SAC layout
  • Managing and administrating SACs
  • Materials
  • Learning program design
  • Integrating self-access with curriculum
  • Learner involvement in self-access
  • Self-access learning communities
  • Learning advising/counseling
  • Assessment of self-access learning
  • Evaluating SACs
  • Research design
  • Interaction and collaboration with colleagues and administrators

Continuing on the success of last year’s event, this year’s forum will consist of short presentations followed by a poster session and open forum discussion.

Proposals should include the following:

  • Title
  • Format (poster or presentation)
  • Name(s) of presenter(s) and affiliation(s)
  • JALT membership number of all presenters, (if applicable)
  • 150-200 word abstract
  • 75-word summary which clearly states your topic
  • Equipment you will require

Please submit your proposal to jasalorgATgmail.com by Sun, April 14, 2013. Please note that while the JALT deadline for submissions is April 21, we need time to put together our proposal. If for some reason your presentation cannot be included in the JASAL Forum, we will notify you so you can submit your proposal to the JALT conference as an individual paper before the April 21 deadline.

Please understand that depending on the number and nature of proposals we receive, we may have to ask you to change from a presentation to a poster or vice versa.

For more information on the JALT 2013 conference, please visit: http://jalt.org/conference