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AGM and Committee
 

Thanks to everyone who helped JALT National to be such a great event, particularly to the presenters at the LiLT Forum and all those who dropped by the LiLT SIG booth to say hello during the weekend. As a result of our AGM at the conference, our executive committee looks like this:

  • Co-coordinators: Tara McIlroy & Frances Shiobara

  • Publications Chair: Gavin Brooks

  • Publicity and website: Kevin Stein

  • Membership Chair: Gregg McNabb

  • Program Chair: John Roberts

  • Simon Bibby and Jane Joritz-Nakagawa are our members-at-large

 
JALT 2013, LiLT SIG Forum: Wendy Nakanishi, Mari Ota, Simon Bibby.
Suzanne Kamata and Dierk Gunther at the LiLT SIG stall.

Logo 


We now have a new logo, which you should look out for at future events and activities by the SIG. Thanks to Maeda Takato for the great design. We are very happy with the visual pun on our acronym ‘LiLT’ and are pleased to have the logo for our own use.

The Heart of The Matter 
 

The heart of the matter: Literature and language teaching’ conference will be held at Aichi University (Toyohashi Campus) on September 6-7th, 2014. You can find the Call for Presentations on our website, deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2014. A big thank you to Kevin Stein for the poster design. 

 

PanSIG Conference Call for Proposals now open


You are warmly invited to take part in the 13th Annual JALT PanSIG Conference. The PanSIG conference is held annually by the Special Interest Groups of the Japan Association for Language Teaching.

 

Theme: Sustainability: Making Learning and Teaching Last

Deadline: January 15th, 2014

Date: 10-11 May 2014

Location: Miyazaki


URL:
http://www.pansig.org/

 

And in Other News
 

A new group, The East Japan International Poetry Association (東日本国際詩学会）, will be having a meeting open to the public in central Tokyo on March 15th, 2014, at Toyo University’s Hakusan campus from 1:00 pm to 5:00 p.m.  For further information, contact LiLT member Jane Nakagawa:  <vf2j-nkgw@asahi-net.or.jp>

Publicity

 

Some changes have been happening at the LiLT SIG publicity desk. First, our website has moved to:
http://liltsig.org 
Also, we are consolidating our online/social media presence. Find us at
Facebook 
Twitter
and Google +.

We are going to discontinue the
LiLTSIG Yahoo group at the
end of December, keeping communication
simpler.

Other conference news: 
 

JALT2014: Call for Proposals open now and close 11 February 2014


Please come join the 40th Anniversary JALT International Conference next year. If you wish to present, please submit proposals soon. The deadline is significantly earlier this year, but notifications will be sent to applicants by mid-April instead of mid-July.


Theme: Conversations Across Borders

Deadline: 11 February 2014

Date: 21-24 November 2014

Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki
(45 minutes from Akihabara, Tokyo)


URL: http://jalt.org/conference

 

Publication News: Literature in Language Teaching Journal
 

The next issue of the Journal of Literature in Language Teaching (JLiLT) will be available at the end of November from our website. We accept submissions throughout the year for the journal. 

 

Kind regards,

 

LiLT Officers

 
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