2026 CUE and GALE SIG Conference

10 Oct 2026, 09:00 → 11 Oct 2026, 17:10 Asia/Tokyo

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Frederick Bacala (JALT), Parvathy Ramachandran (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Terry Tuttle (ISA)

2026 CUE and GALE SIG Conference

Equipping Students for Tomorrow: Equity, Identity, and Agency in English Language Education

The theme of this conference is to promote Equity, Identity, and Agency. 

Equity: Ensuring fair access, participation, and support for all learners and educators.

Identity: Recognizing and valuing the diverse backgrounds, roles, and experiences that teachers or students bring.

Agency: Fostering empowerment and enabling learners and educators to make meaningful choices and shape their interactions and contexts.

Please come and participate in our conference to promote these 3 values!

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Early Registration HAS ENDED.  BUT, you may still register at the regular rate on indico or at the door on the day of the event!  

7,000 yen for JALT members, 9,000 yen for non-JALT members

Dinner Reservations has been extended to October 1, 2026 @5:00pm!

The Conference Dinner registration has been extended!!  The conference dinner will be on campus, at IL Sole.  It is buffet style with soft drinks for 2,000 yen and buffet style with one bottle of alcohol for 2,500 yen.  The dinner will be from 17:30-19:30 on October 10th! (More information on the food and drinks will be out shortly). Space is limited, so register before it is sold out!

Important note for Presenters: Please make sure to register by September 20, 2026, or else your presentation will be withdrawn!

PRESENTERS: If you did not register and Indico account beforehand, please follow the video to create an Indico account (the video is referring to Indico.UN, but it is similar with this Indico JALT page. Click on the 'Log in' button on the top right part of this page.) How to create an Indico Account

Call for Presenters.pdf

CUE_GALE_2026_Conference_Handbook_FINAL20261007.pdf

CUE GALE CONFERENCE CALL Poster.pdf

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Koen Meigi from Nonoichi City

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Saturday 10 October

10:00 → 10:25 Room 101 - Presentation 1: Supporting Learner Agency Through a Daily Learning Tracker

Convener: Domyson Abuan (International College of Technology - Kanazawa)

10:00 → 10:25 Room 102 - Presentation 1: English Beyond the Classroom: Developing Learner Agency through University-Municipality Collaboration

Conveners: 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

10:00 → 10:25 Room 106 - Presentation 1: Gender Representation in English Graded Readers: A Rubric-Based Investigation

Convener: Darren Elliott (Nanzan University)

10:35 → 11:00 Room 101 - Presentation 2: Fostering Student Empowerment with Syllabus Awareness Activities

Conveners: Anna Belobrovy (Rikkyo University), Tanya Erdelyi (Chuo University)

10:35 → 11:00 Room 102 - Presentation 2: Multimodal Shadowing: An Equitable Assessment in the age of AI

Convener: Mark Andrews (Kansai Gaidai University)

10:35 → 11:00 Room 106 - Presentation 2: Deep Reading with Picturebooks: Fostering Identity, Belonging, Equity, and Agency in Universities

Convener: Alison Hasegawa (Rikkyo University)

10:35 → 11:35 Room 402 - Featured: From Writer’s Workshop to Writers’ Guidebook: Supporting Scholarly Development Across JALT

Conveners: Jerry Talandis Jr. (University of Toyama), Kinsella Valies (Sophia University)

11:10 → 11:35 Room 101 - Presentation 3: Picture Your Future: Digital Vision Boards for Reflection, Motivation, and Leaner Agency

Convener: Michelle Jerrems (Sophia University)

11:10 → 11:35 Room 102 - Presentation 3: Student Perceptions of Communicative Language Teaching and the Grammar Translation Method

Convener: Justin Bailey (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

11:10 → 11:35 Room 106 - Presentation 3: Digital Neocolonialism: AI & Manufactured Consent

Convener: Luke Armstrong (Ritsumeikan APU)

11:45 → 12:10 Room 101 - Presentation 4: Vocabulary First, Grammar Next: Supporting Self-Efficacy in STEM EFL

Conveners: Kiyomi Fujii (Kanazawa Institute of Technology), Yukari Kimura (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

11:45 → 12:10 Room 102 - Presentation 4: Using personal narratives to help international students explore their identity in Japan

Convener: John Rucynski

11:45 → 12:10 Room 106 - Presentation 4: Exploring the not so bright side

Convener: Susan Sullivan (Tokai University)

12:10 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 13:40 Room 102 - Presentation 5: KIT Students Presentations

Conveners: Kotaro Takaoka, Ms Lubna Sarker, Ms Mei Ishii

13:15 → 13:40 Room 106 - Presentation 5: Formative assessment in a university setting

Convener: Roderick Mitcham (Shinshu University)

13:15 → 13:40 Room 402 - Featured: 402-5

13:50 → 14:15 Room 101 - Presentation 6: Ecology of Learning, Student Agency, and Generative AI

Convener: Adam Garnica (Kanda University of International Studies)

13:50 → 14:15 Room 102 - Presentation 6: Imagine Us Speaking English: Do Japanese learners need Japanese role models?

Convener: Ian Lawrence (Hokuriku Gakuin University)

13:50 → 14:15 Room 402 - Presentation 6: Inclusive Practices in Higher Education: Identity Safety Cues

Conveners: Sammy Woldeab, Tina Brown (Kanda University of International Studies)

14:25 → 14:50 Room 101 - Presentation 7: Developing Humanistic and Interactional L2 Learning Materials

Convener: Sakae Onoda (順天堂大学)

14:25 → 14:50 Room 102 - Presentation 7: Beyond Linguistic Bias: Generative AI's Limits and Potential in Teaching Global Englishes

Convener: Ms Ma Wilma Capati (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

14:25 → 15:25 Room 106 - Presentation 7: Poster Sessions

Conveners: Li-hsin Tu, Stephanie Reynolds (International College of Technology - Kanazawa), Trisha Mohonto (Graduate School of Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology)

15:00 → 15:25 Room 101 - Presentation 8: Scaffolded Creative Writing for Lower-level University Japanese EFL Leaners

Conveners: Peter Clynes (University of Fukui), Saeeda Ali (Katsuyama Senior High School)

15:00 → 15:25 Room 102 - Presentation 8: Job crafting techniques of foreign English teachers with chronic illness in Japan

Convener: James Taylor (International College of Technology, Kanazawa)

15:25 → 16:00 Coffee Break / Networking Time

16:00 → 16:25 Room 101 - Presentation 9: Agency in disaster survivors studying abroad: Thematic analysis using ecological systems theory

Convener: Kay Izumihara

16:00 → 16:25 Room 102 - Presentation 9: Adaptation in practice: Equity for a Deaf student in two classrooms

Conveners: Daniel Anderson (Asia University), Jeffrey Maxwell (Asia University)

16:00 → 16:25 Room 106 - Presentation 9: CLIL and Intersectional Gender Issues: A Natural Combination

Convener: Quenby Aoki (Rikkyo University)

16:35 → 17:00 Room 102 - Presentation 10: The benefits of an EMI Course versus an ESOL/EFL course

Convener: Dr Frederick Bacala (Yokohama City University)

16:35 → 17:00 Room 106 - Presentation 10: This is his boyfriend's pen - Heteronormativity in the language classroom

Conveners: Alex Serebriakoff (Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku), Mario Alexander Perez (Kobe Shoin University)

18:00 → 20:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday 11 October

10:00 → 10:25 Room 101 - Presentation 1: Becoming Intercultural: Weekly Reflective Writing and Identity Development in Japanese EFL

Convener: Ms Kaushali Samadhi Nikeshala Kotuwila Kankanamalage (Ibaraki University)

10:00 → 10:25 Room 102 - Presentation 1: Duoethnographic comparison of L1 and L2 teachers’ identities: Exploring impostor syndrome

Conveners: Olivia Allanson (Jalt), Sakura Miyake (Kindai University)

10:00 → 10:25 Room 106 - Presentation 1: Supporting Dyslexia in the EFL Classroom

Convener: Justin Whittinghill (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

10:35 → 11:00 Room 101 - Presentation 2: Lower-intermediate students’ perceptions of small talk in a compulsory university EFL course

Convener: Ephraim Domingo (Asia University (Tokyo))

10:35 → 11:00 Room 102 - Presentation 2: Exploring University Students’ Processing of Visual Information in EMI Lectures

Convener: Hung-chun Wang (National Taiwan Normal University)

10:35 → 11:00 Room 106 - Presentation 2: Developing Intercultural Competence in the AI Age

Convener: Renee Renjel (Sophia University)

10:35 → 11:35 Room 402 - Featured: DEI Committee Workshop - Excuse Me, Your Privilege is Showing

Conveners: Ms Krystle Wright (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine), Ms Zoe Barber (Kwansei Gakuin University)

11:10 → 11:35 Room 101 - Presentation 3: Teacher as Developer

Convener: Li-hsin Tu

11:10 → 11:35 Room 102 - Presentation 3: Equity, Identity, Agency, and Yarigai in L2 Writing: Dialectical Silent Dialogue

Convener: Yu Kanazawa (The University of Osaka)

11:10 → 11:35 Room 106 - Presentation 3: AI-Enhanced Collaborative Storytelling in English Conversation Classes

Convener: Astha Tuladhar (Meijo University)

11:45 → 12:10 Room 101 - Presentation 4: Development of an AI-Powered Tool for Mastering Nonverbal Communication Using Web Cameras

Conveners: Akira Tsukada (National Institute of Technology, Toyama College), Elizabeth Oba (National Institute of Technology, Toyama College), Rafael Bretas (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Todd Cooper

11:45 → 12:10 Room 102 - Presentation 4: Beyond raised hands: A stamp card for inclusive class participation

Convener: Mr ChienTing Wu

11:45 → 12:10 Room 106 - Presentation 4: Agentic Engagement Profiles, Peer Feedback and Self-evaluation in EFL Poster Presentations

Convener: Nadiia Zaitseva (Kwansei Gakuin University)

12:10 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 13:40 Room 102 - Presentation 5: Maintaining, Developing, and Reconsidering Teacher Aspirations Among Pre-Service English Teachers

Convener: Junko Takatori (Juntendo University)

13:15 → 13:40 Room 106 - Presentation 5: Identity, Equity, and Agency in Culturally Integrated University Language Classrooms

Conveners: Gordon Carlson (-Otemae University), John Jackson (Otemae University), Timothy Ang

13:15 → 14:15 Room 402 - Featured: Teaching about Workplace Gender Discrimination through Personal Experience

Convener: Bethany Lacy (Rikkyo University)

13:50 → 14:15 Room 101 - Presentation 6: Beyond the Camera: The FRAME Model for Agency and Perspective-Taking

Convener: Mariana Oana SENDA (Tokyo University of Science, Meiji University)

13:50 → 14:15 Room 102 - Presentation 6: From Classroom Quizzes to Authentic English Lounge Conversations

Convener: Astha Tuladhar (Meijo University)

14:25 → 15:00 Closing Ceremony & Raffle