In this edition of JALTCALL News:

Date: March 7, 2026 (Saturday)

Time: 12:30 - 17:00 

Venue: Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo

Participation: ¥1,000 (¥500 for JALT members)

Registration: https://forms.gle/RXpaRkTbTLZpZ3cw6

Schedule: Tentative Schedule

After the resounding success of our 2025 Spring Symposium (in collaboration with the EUROCALL AI SIG), JALTCALL is pleased to announce the 2026 iteration of this event. This year’s spring symposium, focusing on Teacher Development, will be held face-to-face on March 7, 2026, at Kyoritsu Women’s University in central Tokyo.

For this symposium, we want to do something a little different. While the JALTCALL Conference continues to showcase high-quality research, this event places skills development at the forefront. The focus will be on hands-on, interactive workshops, guided discussions, and collaborative sessions designed to help teachers build skills they can immediately use in their classrooms.

Participants should be ready to roll up their sleeves, dust off their teaching and technology skills, and actively take part. Be sure to bring your own devices! Sessions will emphasize practice, experimentation, and shared problem-solving in areas related to CALL, technology-enhanced language learning, and classroom innovation.

We have an exciting and dynamic schedule planned. Check here for details about speakers, session abstracts and more.

To encourage conversation and connection, the event will have a networking-focused atmosphere, with refreshments and snacks provided. The afternoon programme will run from 12:30 - 17:00. Participants are welcome to bring food and gather informally beforehand.

Dates: Friday, June 12 – Sunday, June 14, 2026

Theme: Prevail or Fail?

Venue: Konan University, Hirao School of Management “CUBE” (Nishinomiya Campus) — a 5-minute walk from Hankyu Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station (HK08), right between Osaka and Kobe. 

This year, we received +200 proposals, making the review process somewhat challenging! Submission results were sent out on March 1 (on time)! Hopefully, you've checked your inbox and received some good news. If revisions have been requested, you are strongly advised to make them before the March 15th deadline.

Early-bird registration has begun and tickets can be purchased on our conference website. Please note that all presenters must register before the April 30 early-bird deadline.

Please check the conference website for more details.

We're always happy to help out JALTCALL members and one of our officers reached out with a request for participation in a short, online survey. 

How do you feel about generative AI in academic writing? Please help with this anonymous survey on authorship, responsibility, and AI use in higher education. Participants should be university teachers and researchers in Japan (AI users and non-users welcome).

Your responses will help inform AI policy and practice in academia.

Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/3xsbz999

(日本語版あり! Ethics approved, Sojo University)