PanSIG 2026 - Building Language Competencies through Community

Session

08B

23 May 2026, 11:00

0号building/8-08B (Chukyo University)

156. Innovating Graduate Education with EMI and AI-Enhanced CLIL

Dr Hiroyuki Obari (Globiz Professional University)

23/05/2026, 11:40

CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning

B. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)

This study explores an EMI graduate program (Oct 2025–Jan 2026) using an AI-enhanced CLIL framework to develop English proficiency, intercultural competence, and worldview literacy. Seven students engaged in fourteen sessions, leveraging AI tools for synthesis, visualisation, and presentation rehearsal. Outcomes, assessed via Progos tests, questionnaires, and writing analysis, showed CEFR...

10. Consonant Doubling in English: Challenges for Bengali ESL Learners

Aneesah Nishaat (Higashi Nippon International University), Wasim Parvez Syed (Independent researcher)

23/05/2026, 12:20

LD: Learner Development

A. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)

This paper examines difficulties faced by native Bengali speakers learning English as a second language in applying the English consonant-doubling rule. Focusing on stress-conditioned spelling in disyllabic words, it highlights the roles of limited stress awareness and orthographic interference from Bengali. The study proposes explicit instruction in English stress patterns and the use of...

158. Around the Table: Dinner-Table Discourse and the Building of Community

Xiaoben Yuan (Akita University)

23/05/2026, 13:30

ICLE: Intercultural Communication in Language Education

A. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)

This study explores how intercultural understanding and practical language competencies emerge through dinner-table discourse in a short-term rural farm-stay in Akita, Japan. Drawing on an interactional-ecological and Communities of Practice perspective, it examines how international students, Japanese students, and host farmers co-construct meaning through cooking, serving, eating, and...

157. Developing a CLT Training Course for Pre-Service Teachers

Shalvin Singh (Kanda University of International Studies)

23/05/2026, 15:30

TD: Teacher Development

B. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)

This presentation introduces a communicative language teaching (CLT) training course for pre-service university students preparing to become language teachers. Despite CLT’s theoretical prominence, it remains rare in Japanese classrooms, where grammar-translation methods dominate. The use of reflective activities, practice-teaching tasks, and structured lesson planning to develop an awareness...

83. Strategies for Communication with Perceived Cultural or Linguistic Barriers

Mark McGuire (English Language Services (ELS))

24/05/2026, 10:10

ICLE: Intercultural Communication in Language Education

B. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)

Much has been written about how learner anxiety both contributes to and is sustained by perceived cultural and linguistic barriers between students and language users because of diverse backgrounds. Special focus will be placed on constructing shared identities as a means of bridging the perceived cultural and linguistic barriers that can lead to anxiety. Teachers and researchers can employ...

53. Human-Centered Language Teaching and the Limits of AI

Paul Nehls (Tsuru Bunka University)

24/05/2026, 10:50

CUE: College and University Educators

A. Research-oriented Oral Presentation (25 minutes)

This presentation examines the impact of artificial intelligence on post-secondary language teaching by contrasting two pedagogical models. While AI excels at standardized instruction, feedback, and assessment, many required language courses depend on human-led interaction, motivation, and classroom authority. The talk argues that AI’s influence on language education is determined less by...

232. Kindness, Respect, and Community in a Self-Access Centre in the Gen AI Era

Joe Dobson (Thompson Rivers University)

24/05/2026, 11:30

CUE: College and University Educators

B. Practice-oriented Presentation (25 minutes)

Kindness and respect are important in the scholarship of teaching and learning, but not necessarily given the much-needed time. This presentation will explore the transformative power of kindness and respect in the Graduate Student Success Centre, a self-access centre for graduate students in education in a Canadian university, in which graduate teaching assistants support their peers,...