全国語学教育学会(The Japan Association for Language Teaching=JALT：ジャルト)は語学教育の向上を目的とした非営利学術団体です。語学教育に関わる方々に、教授法の情報交換や共同研究を行う場を提供し、語学教育の発展に貢献する事を目指しています。現在JALTは全国各地の地方支部や準支部および海外に約3,000名の会員を擁しています。JALTのウェブサイトはjalt.orgからご覧いただけます。

JALTは地方支部（Chapters)と分野別研究部会（SIGs）という２つの並行したグループによって運営されています。SIGとは分野別研究部会（Special Interest Group=SIG）をあらわす頭字です。地方支部は地域別に組織されており、JALT会員は地方支部（通常は会員の居住地から一番近い支部）を選択して所属します。それに対してSIGsは日本国内から海外まで幅広く会員を擁しており、研究分野や関心を基盤としています。JALT公式ウェブサイトでは、JALTにおけるSIGsのミッションを下記のように述べています：

（JALTのSIGsは）共通した研究分野に関心を持つ教師間での情報交換や交流のための全国的な集まりであり、日本の外国語・第二言語教育の向上を目指すJALTのミッションを促進しています。SIGs はJALT会員に共有される学術的、研究的、または教育学的な関心が基盤となっており、同じ職業、担当教科やレベル、日本でのニーズに合わせた教授法、特定分野、あるいは専門分野の枠を超えたテーマに基づいて組織されています。

全SIGのリストはJALT公式ウェブサイトのSIGsセクションをご覧ください。それぞれのSIGの連絡先とウェブサイトへのリンクも載せてあります。

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PanSIG大会は、JALTの分野別研究部会(SIGs)により企画・支援されている年次大会です。PanSIG大会は、JALTが主催する年次国際大会よりもカジュアルで小規模なことが特徴です。参加者は自身が所属するSIGの会員だけでなく、異なるSIGsに所属する会員と交流し、ネットワークを広げる事ができます。また、PanSIG大会が通常5月か6月に開催されるのに対して、JALT年次国際大会は通常11月に開催されます。第１回PanSIG大会は2002年に開催されました。（過去のPanSIG大会リストは本ウェブサイトのアーカイブセクションをご覧ください。）

各SIGは、SIGのテーマに関する世界の実務に関する情報を提供し、SIGのテーマに関する日本の実務の見解を示し、SIGが主催する会議やイベント、会員に配布する出版物を通じて、専門的能力の開発を提供し、会議での発表やSIGの出版物への掲載などの専門的機会を提供するものです。JALT会員は、希望する数のSIGに参加することができます。各SIGの会費は2,000円です。SIGへの入会は、JALT SIGのウェブサイトをご覧になるか、コンファレンス会場で、ご興味のあるSIGまたはSIGのテーブルをお訪ねください。また、大会登録テーブルでもSIGに参加することができます。

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In addition to the PanSIG conference, some of JALT's SIGs hold their own conferences. One of the largest of these is the JALT CALL SIG Conference, usually held in early June. 

JALT's chapters put on events regularly. While many of these are workshops or presentations by one or two speakers, some chapters hold mini-conferences. Please see the JALT calendar for details.

JALT's largest event is its Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition, held in October or November. 

PanSIGのソーシャルメディアのページをご覧ください。

The Accessibility in Language Learning SIG became a new forming SIG in February 2021.

https://sites.google.com/view/all-sig/home

ART SIG is for artists, researchers, and teachers who are interested in exploring and utilizing visual art in the language classroom. 

ART SIG is a forum to share teaching resources and ideas about the recognized roles and future possibilities for visual artworks in the language-learning classroom. The visual arts (paintings, photos, illustrations) help students to learn multicultural literacy and multimodal reading skills. Art also engages learners by offering affordances to interact with SLA materials, reduces social anxiety, and increases social inclusion. A deep engagement with the visual arts promotes critical thinking skills, the bedrock of learning how to learn.

https://jalt.org/groups/sigs/art-research-and-teaching

全国語学教育学会バイリンガリズム研究部会は、バイリンガリズムの調査計画や調査多角化を促進することを目的にし ています。また、会員間の相互援助の基盤となる場所を提供します。

http://www.bsig.org

BE SIGは、世界のビジネス界に通用する英語教育の発展を目的に持ち、結成されました。連携体 制を組み、最善の教育方法を共有することにより、英語教育に携わるインストラクターの皆様の お手伝いを致します。

http://sites.google.com/view/jalt-bizcom-sig/

The Mind, Brain, and Education SIG (BRAIN) is a forum for language educators and researchers to share insights in neuroscience. We hope to be a driving force in bringing relevant new discoveries in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics into language teaching in Japan.

http://www.neuroelt.org/

The CALL SIG serves the interests of language teaching professionals who are interested in bringing together knowledge and skills of technology and language learning. CALL practitioners work in a variety of educational settings: private language schools, elementary and secondary schools as well as colleges and universities.

http://jaltcall.org/

CEFR&LP SIG wants to discuss the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and European Language Portfolio (ELP), and other similar frameworks and their relevance for Japan. There is an emphasis on developing materials to support educators who would like to use these pedagogic tools. This is currently practically pursued in a Kaken Project. Also, the bilingual Language Portfolio aimed at Japanese universities is available on the SIG moodle.

https://cefrjapan.net

CUE’s goal is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of educational activities, ideas and research of broad interest to college and university educators in Japan. If you are involved in tertiary education and are committed to professional development, you are CUE too.

http://jaltcue.org/

The CT SIG was established for the purpose of providing a clear but ever-reforming definition of critical thinking; to provide a forum for the discussion of critical thinking and praxis; to provide research opportunities to language educators interested in promoting critical thinking; and to provide an area where language teachers can enjoy friendly, professional and engaging examination of the rationale, validity and, furthermore, the critical importance of its instruction in various environments.

http://www.jaltcriticalthinking.org

全国語学教育学会多読分野別研究部会「JALT ER SIG」は、講師達がERプログラムをスムーズに始められるよう、またそれを有効的に利用できることを目的に活動しています。またこの概念を元に、私達の ウエブサイト、会報、ERJ雑誌、プレゼンテーションなどを通じERの促進を促しています。

http://jalt.org/er/

The purpose of the GALE SIG is to research gender and its implications for language learning, teaching, and training. We welcome submissions for our newsletter (spring, summer, and fall issues) on topics, both theoretical and practical, related to the SIG’s aims. Book reviews, lesson plans, think pieces, poetry -- basically anything related to gender and language teaching is welcomed.

http://www.gale-sig.org

GILE aims to promote global awareness, international understanding, and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching, drawing from fields such as global education, peace education, environmental education, and human rights education. GILE SIG produces a quarterly newsletter, organizes presentations for local, national, and international conferences, and maintains contacts with groups ranging from Amnesty International to Educators for Social Responsibility to UNESCO.

http://www.gilesig.org/

ICLE (Intercultural Communication in Language Education) SIG, JALT's newest SIG, aims at filling the gap within the existing SIGs at JALT, by exploring various ways language teachers could help shape their students' intercultural minds, raise their students’ cultural self-awareness, and educate for intercultural understanding. It will promote discussion about (1) various approaches to teaching intercultural communication in a language classroom, allowing educators to become better informed about language intercultural education theory, as well as (2) the development of resources appropriate to a foreign language teaching environment, taking into consideration the practical challenges of taking culture into account in the language classroom.

日本語教育研究部会(JSL SIG)の役割は、第二言語としての日本語指導、日本語学習、日本語 教育研究の向上を目指し、指導、学習、研究のための資料や情報を与えることです。日本語の指 導者、学習者、研究者の皆様加入大歓迎です。発表の援助をし、ニュースレターと論文集を発行 するので論文・記事の寄稿を歓迎します。

http://jalt.org/jsl/

LD SIGは、多様な教育現場(大学以外)でご活躍の皆さんの参加を歓迎しています。 小学校、中学 校、高校、通信教育、大学院、語学学校での指導や、英語以外の言語を教えている教師の皆様、 どうぞご参加ください。

http://ld-sig.org

We offer a bright future to our aging society. The energy of older learners who wish to lead active lives is flowing all over Japan. LLL is willing to help these older learners enrich their lives through language learning. LLL also provides resources and information for teachers who teach English to older learners by holding events and publishing online newsletters.

http://jalt.org/lifelong/

The Listening SIG became a new forming SIG in February 2021.

Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Realities (MAVR) is not a new concept or area of study, but it an area that is beginning to be implemented at a larger scale in many other fields. Environments that employ these tools and concepts are being applied to medicine, engineering and education. There are those of us working in this area connected to education here in Japan and more specifically language education in Japan. The MARV SIG is not just about the technology, it is also looking into what these technologies mean for how we communicate and learn as we create and augment our own reality.

https://sites.google.com/view/mavrsig

LiLT started up to encourage and promote the use of literature in the language classroom. Literature provides real content to engage and to motivate our EFL students.

http://liltsig.org

The MW SIG was established to help members turn fresh teaching ideas into useful classroom materials. We try to be a mutual assistance network, offering information regarding copyright law, sharing practical advice on publishing practices, including self-publication, and suggesting ways to create better language learning materials for general consumption or for individual classroom use.

http://www.materialswriters.org/

The OLE SIG was founded in 1996 in order to serve the special needs of learners and teachers of a wide variety of languages (German, French, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian etc.). OLE can also be considered part of peace education as languages are also thought to be instrumental in developing cultural empathy, opening up our minds to other concepts and ideas, and enabling us to reflect on our own.

http://jalt.org/groups/605

The Pragmatics SIG welcomes members who are interested in both research and practical teaching issues related to "how people do things with words." The group’s newsletter, Pragmatic Matters, is published electronically three times a year. Our Pragmatics Resources series offers practical and theoretical papers on language in use. If you do anything with language, you are using pragmatics.

http://www.pragsig.org

Language School owners have always played a significant role in JALT both at national & local levels. The SIG offers web-based and in-person events as well as a forum to discuss and find solutions to issues unique to operating a language school and cannot be addressed through other SIGs, such as: recruitment & training; taxes, accounting, banking and bookkeeping; marketing & advertising; managing employees, and partnerships & trade between owners.
 
https://jaltsosig.wixsite.com/home

The PIE SIG was formerly known as the Speech, Drama, & Debate SIG (SD&D). The name was officially changed in June 2019.

The mission of the PIE SIG is to provide a forum for teachers and academics to discuss, research, and implement oral interpretation, speech, debate, and drama in language education, including teachers​ ​who use music, puppetry, oral interpretation in their classes. The main activities of the PIE SIG include the creation of newsletters, two journals, and sponsoring conferences. Future activities may be sponsoring and supporting local and regional speech, drama, and debate contests or festivals.

https://sites.google.com/site/speechdramaanddebatepublicsite/

The JALT Study Abroad SIG was established in 2008 to promote research on overseas study and facilitate networking among those interesting in learning more about study abroad.

http://jalt-sa.org

The TBL SIG is aimed at teachers who currently use, or are interested in using, task-based approaches in the classroom. TBL SIG focuses in particular on issues related to Task-Based Language teaching and learning in the Asian EFL context, where TBLT has yet to enter the mainstream of language pedagogy. We hope that the SIG will serve as a useful forum for the exchange of practical teaching ideas, theoretical discussion, and academic studies of TBLT issues.

http://tblsig.org

The TD SIG is a network for those who want to help themselves and others become more effective and reflective teachers. Formed in 1993, our activities include conferences, workshops, forums, newsletters, and reflective practice groups. TD's journal, Explorations in Teacher Development, welcomes stimulating submissions related to teacher research.

Website: http://td.jalt.org

Twitter: @JALT_TD_SIG

Email: jalt.td.sig@gmail.com

THT is a grassroots organization founded by members of the Himeji City Chapter of JALT in 2004. THT is dedicated to the aid and assistance of fellow educators and students in and around Asia. We fulfill this mission by providing teacher-training workshops in Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, and Vietnam that exhibit practical, student and teacher-friendly approaches to language education that are informed by current research in the field.

http://www.tht-japan.org

The TYL SIG is for teachers of children of all ages. We publish a bilingual newsletter four times a year with columns by many of the leading teachers in the field. We are always looking for new ideas and new people to keep the SIG dynamic. With our bilingual newsletter, Teachers Learning with Children, we particularly want to appeal to Japanese teachers and teachers who team teach.

http://www.jalt-tyl.org

TEVAL研究部会の目的は、第二外国語の教育における、試験と評価に関する問題に興味を持つJALT会員の研究の促進、出版物の刊行、定期集会の開催など語学教育と学習の発展に寄与することを目的とする。

http://teval.jalt.org

The VOCAB SIG aims to provide a forum for focused research and discussion in specific regard to vocabulary acquisition. We aim to offer both teachers and researchers a place to connect regarding how learners improve vocabulary knowledge, how to test their knowledge, and how these theoretical aspects will connect to classroom practice. The VOCAB SIG aims to be a driving force for both current and future research in the field of how vocabulary can be taught, learned, and tested in an increasingly global context.

http://jaltvocab.weebly.com