Name: Collaboration Across Borders 2026: A Fukuoka JALT – Busan-Gyeongsang-Daegu KOTESOL Joint Symposium
Start: 2026-09-12T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-09-12T18:00:00+09:00
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Collaboration Across Borders 2026: A Fukuoka JALT – Busan-Gyeongsang-Daegu KOTESOL Joint Symposium

Saturday, 12 September 2026 - 09:00

Monday, 7 September 2026
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Friday, 11 September 2026
Saturday, 12 September 2026
09:00 Room 1: Plenary Presentation 1
Plenary Presentation 1
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 From National Goals to Classroom Possibilities: English Education Across a Stratified High School System - Sunao Fukunaga (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
11:10 Room 1: Hybrid Presentations
Hybrid Presentations
11:10 - 16:50
Contributions

14:40 Crossing Borders with Curiosity: An Activity Based on Students' Innate Curiosity - David Kluge (Chukyo University (Adjunct Professor))

15:20 Motivating Factors for Collaborating Teachers in a Small-Scale Virtual Exchange - Heather Kretschmer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) George MacLean (University of the Ryukyus)

16:00 Peace Education in Challenging Times (Hybrid) - Kevin Kester (Seoul National University)
Room 1: JALT
JALT
11:10 - 16:50
Contributions

11:10 Collaborating Across Intercultural Borders: Negotiating Meaning in Campus Interviews - Khadijah Omar (Kyushu University)

11:50 Translanguaging Arts-based Pedagogy Exploring Gender and Language Intersections - Yaya Yao (Kyushu University)

12:30 Implementing DDL to Foster Autonomy and Close the Digital Divide - Sarah Deutchman

14:00 An Exploratory Study of AI-Enabled Cognitive Offloading Among Elite Scholarship Students During an Authentic Academic Task - Hasan Ghazali (Limadata Indonesia)
Room 2: JALT
JALT
11:10 - 16:50
Contributions

16:00 Collaboration Across Borders: Examples From Languages Other Than English - Gabriela Schmidt (JALT CEFR LP SIG President)
Room 2: KOTESOL
KOTESOL
11:10 - 16:50
Contributions

11:10 Virtual Collaboration within a Multi-bordered Landscape: Language, National Identity, and Convenience Store Foods - Bryan Meadows (Yongsan International School of Seoul)

11:50 Shades of Cultural Adjustment: From Pink to 3-D - Natalie Thibault (Wonkwang University)

12:30 The Existential ELT Classroom: Yalom’s Givens and the Pedagogy of Care - Daniel Svoboda (KOTESOL - Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

14:00 Cultural Context in the Classroom - KC Washington (BusanGD KOTESOL) Maiah Hollander (KOTESOL) Sarah Slagle

14:40 Creative Collaboration Across Borders Through Video Haiku - Ashley Ford (Nagoya City University)

15:20 Who Gets to Teach? Identity, Power, and Legitimacy in Korean ELT - Meerbek Kudaibergenov (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
Room 3: Student Showcase
Student Showcase
11:10 - 16:50
Contributions

11:50 The Most Effective Method of Learning Foreign Languages in Different Age Groups - Hina Hirayama (Kurume university)

12:30 AI-supported Comprehensible Input For Japanese EFL Learners - REO SHIN (Kurume university)

14:00 The Importance of English Language Education for Hospitality in the Age of AI - Ayana Hara (Kurume University)

14:40 The Role of ChatGPT and Gemini in English Language Education - Runa Fukumoto (Kurume university)

15:20 The Value of Studying Abroad - Yuto Sasaki (Kurume University)
17:00 Room 1: Plenary Presentation 2
Plenary Presentation 2
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Being, Becoming and Belonging as/in Practice: (Re-)Imagining “English” Language Education - Nathanael Rudolph (Kindai University (近畿大学)) Miso Kim (The University of Osaka)

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