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JALT PanSIG 2008


The Pragmatics SIG was again actively involved with the JALT PanSIG conference, this year held at Doshisha University in Kyoto.

  Donna Fujimoto organized a workshop on the contrast culture method and also took part in an cross SIG panel discussion on classroom management and mixed levels.

  Sayoko Yamashita gave a plenary talk on pragmatics and testing, pointing out that there are many areas of pragmatics which have yet to be incorporated into language assessment tasks.

  Other pragmatics presentations included;

The two day event attracted over 100 participants.

TUJ Applied Linguistics
Colloquium 2008

Sunday, February 10, 2008 Temple University Japan Campus-TOKYO

The TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium 2008 was held on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008. The conference ran very smoothly and the colloquium a success.

We had about 90 participants altogether (including volunteers) and more than 30 presenters on Pragmatics, Vocabulary, Writing, Conversation Analysis, Classroom Discourse, Testing and Evaluation, Individual Differences, Classroom Instruction, Sociolinguistics, Speaking, Motivation, Neurolinguistics, & Bilingualism.

Megumi Kawate-Mierzejewska, Ed.D.

The Organizing Committee
TUJ Applied Linguistics Colloquium 2008



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Up-coming conferences

Tokyo, Japan
31 Oct to 3 Nov
  Melbourne, Australia
  12-17 July 2009.
Dr Sayoko Yamashita delivers a plenary session at the 2008 JALT PanSIG conference in Kyoto
  Kobe University, Japan
  16-20 June 2010