CUE Events - 2011

CUE 2011 Conference

Location: Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus, Tokyo
Date: July 2nd and 3rd, 2011
Time: 9:00 - 6:00 p.m. each day

The CUE 2011 Conference on Foreign Language Motivation in Japan is held by the Japanese Association for Language Teaching College and University Educators’ Special Interest Group (JALT CUE SIG), in coordination with JALT West Tokyo. This event hopes to bring together educators of all foreign languages teaching at any level of education in Japan to discuss one of the most salient non-linguistic components of foreign language education: motivation.

We will be inviting two highly respected and well-known foreign language educators (Ema Ushioda and Kimberley Noels) as Plenary Speakers, and will be joined by four Japan-based Featured Presenters (Tomoko Yashima, Yoshiyuki Nakata, Tomohito Hiromori, Keita Kikuchi) who are also actively contributing to issues such as teacher motivation, language identity and motivation, junior and senior high motivation, and demotivation.

CUE 2011 Conference will include the following strands:

• motivation and secondary education
  
• teacher motivation
  
• demotivation
  
• motivation at the tertiary level
  
• classroom motivational strategies
  
• motivation and identity
  
• motivation and willingness to communicate

For more information, see the main conference website: http://cue2011conference.org/

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CUE is also co-sponsoring the upcoming Nakasendo Conference. Nakasendo 2011 will be held this year on Sunday, June 19th at the Dokkyo University Junior and Senior High School in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. The conference will offer another engaging day of insightful presentations and collaborative sharing. The theme for the 2011 conference is “The Road Less Traveled.” It examines previously little-explored and less conventional directions in ELT instruction and research.


For more information: http://nakasendoconference.com/

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CUE is co-sponsoring the upcoming Pan-SIG Conference. The conference is a collaborative effort of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within the Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT).

This year’s theme is "Discovering Paths to Fluency." The conference will be held on May 21st and 22nd, 2011 at Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan. 

For more information: http://pansig.org/2011/

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