PanSIG 2026 - Building Language Competencies through Community

Session

Posters - 2F Yamate Hall

23 May 2026, 12:45

0号building/2-1 - Yamate Hall (posters) (Chukyo University)

118. Connecting Classroom and Community: A TBL Tourism Project

Alina Friel (Shokei Gakuin University), Patrick Conaway (Shokei Gakuin University)

23/05/2026, 12:45

TBL: Task-Based Learning

C. Poster Session

How can EFL students use English beyond the classroom in meaningful ways? This poster presents a first-year project-based English program where students supported inbound tourism through community-connected tasks. Students interviewed local business owners and visitors and produced English magazine-style articles for international audiences. Grounded in TBLT, the project highlights task...

100. Evaluating AI Models for Level-Appropriate Elicited Imitation Materials

Omar Massoud (Meiji Gakuin University), Robert Cvitkovic (Teikyo University), Yoko Kita (Kyoto Notre Dame University)

23/05/2026, 12:45

CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning

C. Poster Session

This study evaluates three AI assistants' ability to generate level-appropriate Elicited Imitation materials for Japanese EFL learners. This phase of our research utilized the New General Service List and NGSL-Speaking list to define linguistic parameters. A One-Way MANOVA comparing models (Wilks’ Lambda = 0.42, p < .001) revealed that Claude significantly outperformed ChatGPT and Gemini in...

134. The Games Fair: Collaboration and Community Building through Games

Mr Theodore Pare (Kanda University of International Studies), Travis Gasaway (Kanda University of International Studies)

23/05/2026, 12:45

TBL: Task-Based Learning

C. Poster Session

This poster presentation will showcase a collaborative Games Fair event for the language learning classroom. By using task-based learning practices and encouraging cross-classroom collaboration, the Games Fair presents an engaging and exciting opportunity for student communication, speaking practice, and engagement with the language learning community. The presenters will demonstrate how they...

73. When Mediation Is Not Neutral: Generative AI and Language Learners

Miguel Campos (Toyo University), Robert Dykes (Conference Chair (CALL 2024, PanSIG 2025, SUTLF 2026))

23/05/2026, 12:45

CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning

C. Poster Session

Generative AI is often framed as a neutral mediator in language learning, but this poster argues that AI mediation is never neutral. Drawing on sociocultural perspectives, it shows how AI reshapes participation, redistributes effort, and alters task difficulty, emotional load, and learner risk. These shifts affect identity, investment, motivation, and affect, influencing how learners position...

75. Living on the Edge: Peripherality & Marginality in EMI Communities

Peter Brereton (International Christian University)

24/05/2026, 11:55

CUE: College and University Educators

C. Poster Session

This presentation examines how peer dynamics in English-medium instruction (EMI) shape participation beyond linguistic challenges. Using Wenger’s Community of Practice framework, it distinguishes peripherality as an enabling entry position from marginality as restricted access to meaningful practice. Based on a longitudinal narrative doctoral study of seven students at a Japanese university, I...

190. Those who understand, teach: Teacher Development in Jamaica and Japan

Ms Krystle Wright (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)

24/05/2026, 11:55

GILE: Global Issues in Language Education

C. Poster Session

Professional development is essential for setting young and emerging teachers on the path to success. However, the need for in-service teacher professional development should also be addressed. This project will introduce and compare the professional development programs available to teachers in Japan and Jamaica and discuss whether they should be institutionally structured or teacher-driven....

54. Transnational Sisterhood: Career Trajectories of Japanese Women Academics

Kayoko Kinshi (University of Hyogo), Akiko Tsuda (Nakamura Gakuen University)

24/05/2026, 11:55

CUE: College and University Educators

C. Poster Session

This poster examines transnational sisterhood between two Japanese women academics who met abroad and sustained collaboration across different regional universities in Japan. Using collaborative narrative inquiry, the study explores how their relationship enabled cross-institutional online learning projects initiated during COVID-19. The presentation demonstrates how informal networks support...

142. University students’ rankings of social issue severity

Bethany Lacy (Rikkyo University)

24/05/2026, 11:55

GILE: Global Issues in Language Education

C. Poster Session

In this interactive poster session, audience members will be able to see which social issues more than 100 university students said are the most severe, 1) in Japan and 2) around the world. The poster compares how the same issues are ranked across these two scales and highlights where perceptions differ most. Students also provided written responses explaining what they considered the most...