10–11 Oct 2026
Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Contact Parvathy Ramachandran (CUE) or Terry Tuttle (GALE) for more information

Session

Room 102 - Presentation 1

102-1
10 Oct 2026, 10:00
Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

〒921-8501 Ishikawa, Nonoichi, Ogigaoka, 7−1

Conveners

Room 102 - Presentation 1: English Beyond the Classroom: Developing Learner Agency through University-Municipality Collaboration

  • Masahiro Higashi (Hakusan City Board of Education)
  • Sumiaki Machi (Hakusan Tedorigawa UNESCO Global Geopark Promotion Council; Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve Council; Fukui Prefectural University)
  • Yukari Kimura (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
  • Yuuri Nishi

Room 102 - Presentation 1: Fostering Future Imagined Identities through Community Building Classroom Practices

  • Arunima Prasanna Kumar (Independent Researcher)
  • Olivia Allanson (Jalt)

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  1. Mr Masahiro Higashi (Hakusan City Board of Education), Dr Sumiaki Machi (Hakusan Tedorigawa UNESCO Global Geopark Promotion Council; Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve Council; Fukui Prefectural University), Yukari Kimura (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Mr Yuuri Nishi (Hakusan City Board of Education)
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    Practical Presentation - CUE

    The university and local government collaborated to implement English-language activities that utilized local resources. Students gained experience interacting with the local community in English by conducting street surveys and posting information on social media in both Japanese and English. As a result, some students began to participate actively in community activities and educational...

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  2. Ms Arunima Prasanna Kumar (Independent Educator), Ms Olivia Allanson (Kindai, Ritsumeikan)
    Practical Presentation - CUE

    EFL classroom practices -such as random groupings and roleplays- are often implemented to build classroom communities. This presentation offers a fresh rationale for these practices by drawing on Norton’s poststructural ideas of Identity and Investment, Imagined Identities and Communities. Re-examining these classroom practices allows teachers to observe how the learners rehearse their sense...

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