The 2022 PanSIG Journal has been published
The 2022 PanSIG Journal represents the eighth edition of the annual PanSIG Journal in its latest form -- following 14 years of proceedings publications beginning with 2002 -- which includes a selection of articles based on presentations from the 2022 conference. With a detailed and supportive blind peer review process, authors were able to produce high quality articles. The articles finally selected for publication in the 2022 PanSIG Journal effectively represent the diverse range of topics presented at the PanSIG 2022 conference, which was held July 08-10 face to face with hybrid presentations at The University of Nagano.
PanSIG 2023 was a success!
On behalf of the committee, we want to sincerely thank everyone who contributed to the incredible success of the PanSIG2023 conference in Kyoto. It was truly an amazing event, bringing together a community of awesome people from all over Japan and overseas. With over 550 registered participants and 260 sessions, the conference was buzzing with great energy and wonderful ideas. We are especially grateful to the more than 200 attendees (each!) who joined us for both the captivating plenary sessions that Mitsuyo Sakamoto & Yukie Saito provided, and the 11 AMs who supported this conference and introduced participants to their great resources.
Check out the photos from PanSIG 2023!
Key dates:
- Call for Presentation Proposals (CFP) was open November 30, 2022 - January 20, 2023. See the 2023 schedule.
- Research grants submission deadline: October 31st, 2022
- Conference grants submission deadline: January 20, 2023
- Pre-registration deadline: May 2nd. If you missed this deadline, you can pay on-site at the door (credit cards / cash).
- Order lunch by May 2nd. If you've missed this deadline, please plan on bringing a lunch with you as options on site are very limited.
- Sign up for Saturday's Official Conference Dinner by May 2nd. Unfortunately, these social events are no longer accepting people.
- Childcare registration deadline: May 5th
- PanSIG 2023 Conference: May 12 to 14, 2023 at Kyoto Sangyo University
- For presenters: PanSIG Journal Submission Deadline (initial draft of full paper due): August 31, 2023
PanSIG 2023 was awarded an EVE Voices Badge!
The PanSIG 2023 Conference was awarded an EVE (Equal Voices in ELT) Voices Badge.
PanSIG 2022: A successful return to face to face conferences!
updated July 26, 2022
PanSIG 2022 Conference took place face-to-face July 8-10, 2022, and feedback from participants was very positive. Thank you to the University of Nagano (長野県立大学) Miwa Campus for hospitality and to the wonderful students who were helpful volunteers. PanSIG 2022 was well attended (close to 400 attendees in person, and a good number of folks joining us online), with more than 175 presentations on campus (17 of which were hybrid) and seven online-only presentations.
The conference theme was (Re)imagining language education. What is the future of language education in a post-pandemic world? How will we teach, research, and learn languages? What challenges will learners, researchers and educators meet and overcome? What new connections will be made among learners, educators, and researchers within and beyond our classrooms and communities? The theme connects well with JALT SIGs, and the PanSIG 2022 Conference will be a place where educators, researchers, and learners can re(imagine) our professionalism and academic excellence, thinking about how to help students enhance their learning and share, discuss and engage in research and practice in meaningful ways in the post-pandemic world.
(Please note that the dates for PanSIG 2022 were later than usual. We chose the date to avoid a schedule conflict with a festival in Nagano, which took over May and June in 2022. This change meant that PanSIG attendees were able to find affordable hotels and transportation, which would have been our biggest concern if we were to try to hold PanSIG during the festival.)
PanSIG 2022 was awarded an EVE Voices Badge!
The PanSIG 2022 Conference was awarded an EVE (Equal Voices in ELT) Voices Badge for gender balance and L1 balance in our plenary speaker lineup!
The 2021 PanSIG Journal Has Been Published
posted June 3, 2022
This journal represents the seventh edition of the annual PanSIG Journal in its latest form – following 14 years of proceedings publications beginning with 2002 – which includes a selection of articles based on presentations from the 2021 conference. With a detailed and supportive blind peer review process, authors were able to produce high quality articles. The challenges posed by the pandemic in 2021 undoubtably made it difficult to make the time to write, review, and revise articles but our authors rose to that challenge. The articles finally selected for publication in the 2021 PanSIG Journal effectively represent the diverse range of topics presented at the PanSIG conference. Although the reader can only observe the final product of the selected articles, the effort and care of the authors and reviewers to help the submissions reach their full potential clearly show that the PanSIG Journal is just as much a place to grow as a novice author as for the language teaching community to share new ideas.
[Download the 2021 PanSIG Journal (PDF)]
