Conveners
Room 1: JALT
- Trevor Holster (Kyushu High-school)
- Bill Pellowe (JALT Director of PR)
Room 1: Hybrid Presentations
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Khadijah Omar (Kyushu University)12/09/2026, 11:10
This study explores collaboration across intercultural borders through a campus interview task assigned to 167 first-year students at a national university in Japan. The participants designed their own questions on topics of interest and conducted English-language interviews with international students outside class time. The task positioned both parties as valuable contributors: the...
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Dr Yaya Yao (Kyushu University)12/09/2026, 11:50
In English language education (ELE) and literature education in outer and expanding circle (Kachru, 1986) contexts, modern/colonial legacies have initiated and sustained monolingual bias and logocentrism. In Northeast Asia, nationalism and neoliberalism contribute to these dynamics, limiting the transformative and justice-building potentials of ELE and literature education. While many...
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Sarah Deutchman12/09/2026, 12:30
Data-driven learning (DDL) is widely recognized as a powerful pedagogical approach that helps learners check word usage and self-correct errors, particularly for vocabulary and grammar (Huang & Ma, 2025; Ma & Mei, 2021; Zareva, 2016). Yet despite this potential, DDL remains underused in classrooms worldwide. This presentation asks why, examining key barriers: a lack of readily available,...
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Hasan Ghazali (Limadata Indonesia)12/09/2026, 14:00
The growing use of Generative AI has changed how students approach academic work, making conversational AI a common source of support during learning. While existing research has examined AI adoption and its impact on academic performance, less is known about what motivates students to seek AI assistance during a learning task. This exploratory study examines how elite scholarship students...
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David Kluge (Chukyo University (Adjunct Professor))12/09/2026, 14:40
In my personal life, I go online for a few minutes to answer a small question. One thing leads to another and I realize I have spent hours covering a wide variety of topics. All powered by curiosity, as explained by Kidd (2015). This can be transferred to the classroom through the activity described in this presentation. The activity asks students to choose any topic they have an interest in...
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Heather Kretschmer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), George MacLean (University of the Ryukyus)12/09/2026, 15:20
This presentation reports on a small virtual exchange between university students in Okinawa, Japan, and Göttingen, Germany. The student task was intentionally kept modest in scope: students used English through asynchronous tasks to introduce their everyday university life, respond to students overseas, and reflect on similarities and differences in their experiences. The presentation also...
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Kevin Kester (Seoul National University)12/09/2026, 16:00
Peace education faces profound challenges amid accelerating geopolitical instability, economic inequality, environmental crises, and growing critiques of its intellectual foundations. These developments raise urgent questions about the aims, justifications, epistemologies, and methodologies of the field. This presentation examines these challenges through emerging scholarship on affective,...
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