This is our first session to help participants get comfortable with Edzil.la or just test their system to make sure they can have the best conference experience as possible. Please come and join us with any questions you might have and leave the tech stuff up to us!

This is our second session to help participants get comfortable with Edzil.la or just test their system to make sure they can have the best conference experience as possible. Please come and join us with any questions you might have and leave the tech stuff up to us!

If you need help with anything related to JALT2021 come and find your answer. If you want to see the conference platform, even test out your slides, etc., come and do what you need to do. Someone will be on hand to help you. Sessions will be running all week leading up to and throughout the conference!

If you need help with anything related to JALT2021 come and find your answer. If you want to see the conference platform, even test out your slides, etc., come and do what you need to do. Someone will be on hand to help you. Sessions will be running all week leading up to the conference!

If you need help with anything related to JALT2021 come and find your answer. If you want to see the conference platform, even test out your slides, etc., come and do what you need to do. Someone will be on hand to help you. Sessions will be running all week leading up to the conference!

If you need help with anything related to JALT2021 come and find your answer. If you want to see the conference platform, even test out your slides, etc., come and do what you need to do. Someone will be on hand to help you. Sessions will be running all week leading up to the conference!

If you need help with anything related to JALT2021 come and find your answer. If you want to see the conference platform, even test out your slides, etc., come and do what you need to do. Someone will be on hand to help you. Sessions will be running all week leading up to the conference!

This is the time of year we all get together and discuss SIG issues. We have keep this as close to the conference as possible to allow for more participation. If you are a coordinator for one of the 30 SIGs in JALT, please come and share your ideas with us. This will be an open forum to exchange ideas and discuss issues relevant to all SIGs.

Student Room Hosts, Please join this session for training.

Linguaskill tests the real-life language needed for an academic environment with in-depth, accurate, individual and group reporting aligned with international standards. This means you can make confident placement and admissions decisions, and students have the skills they need for academic success and enhanced employability. The remote proctoring solutions and extensive learning solutions have helped learners to achieve their goals amid the pandemic. Find out more about Linguaskill and such solutions in our session.

What does the board of directors (BoD) do? Who is on the 2021-2022 BoD? How does a member become a director? This informal interactive session will be attended by the current board of directors who will briefly introduce themselves and what they do. The floor will then be open for questions and discussion about the BoD, its members, and their work. Come ready to interact and converse!

Limited to the first 100 people. The ZPD is an informal space to meet, discuss, network, and collaborate in themed breakout rooms (some facilitated), including: New and Prospective Members, First-time Conference Attendees, Online Teaching, Eikaiwa/ALTs, Young Learners, Publishing, Research, Graduate Students, and more. 先着100名様限定 プロフェッショナル・ディベロップメントのためのZoomミーティング(ZDP) は、テーマ別のブレイクアウトルームにて、意見を交わし、共有し、協力するためのインフォーマルな空間です（一部進行役付き）。テーマは、新入会員・入会希望者、初めて大会に参加する方、オンライン教育、英会話・ALT、若年の学習者、出版、研究、 大学院生などです。

If you are involved with publicity for your JALT chapter or SIG, please consider attending this meeting. We’ll start with a question and discussion session. Ideally, this will involve some short “show and tell” presentations by various people to show the rest of us some part of your group’s publicity. If we have a lot of people, we can do smaller breakout room sessions on different topics.

This is a meeting of JALT membership chairs to discuss issues, catch up, etc.

This is a meeting for the JALT Environmental Committee. Please join us to learn about what JALT is doing for the environment, share your ideas, and consider getting involved in "greening" JALT.

This is the meeting for JALT Chapter and SIG Program Chairs.

The Michele Steele Best of JALT Awards is a program that was started to honor the speakers who make JALT events such valuable experiences. This year's awards are for events and publications from the 2020 calendar year.

Each year, the JALT chapters and SIGs each have the option of naming a speaker (or author of an article) from the previous calendar year as their Best of JALT award recipient. While this award had been around for many years, Michele Steele renewed the award and brought it properly into the limelight in 2010 by creating a ceremony to be held at JALT's annual international conference. Over the years, this Best of JALT Award Reception has grown into the main social event of the conference. At the JALT2020 Conference, the Executive Board of JALT unanimously voted on changing the name of this award to The Michele Steele Best of JALT Award in honor of Michele's inspiring work and devoted love of honoring the JALT members who are being recognized by this award. Sadly, Michele passed away in December 2020 after a long battle with illness, and will be greatly missed at this year's event.

Please join us for the Michele Steele Best of JALT Awards to not only honor the award recipients, but also to raise a glass in remembrance of Michele Steele, a long-time officer and volunteer of JALT.

The Graduate Student Subcommittee (GSS) is for people who currently study or are thinking about studying at university. We provide a forum for people to talk about their experience of student life, and we offer this event to help you make connections and share your ideas and concerns. We want to help all students, and we are looking for ideas about how we can do this. Anyone interested in joining or helping us is welcome.

PanSIG is an annual conference organized by JALT’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The conference brings together leading scholars and practitioners in language education. This meeting will have multiple breakout room sessions to discuss different PanSIG conference-related topics. It is open for anyone interested in joining future PanSIG conferences. You can find more information about PanSIG at https://pansig.org, or contact Koki Tomita, the 2022 Conference Chair, at confchair@pansig.org.

The presenters will detail the training and services currently available to JALT members through the Writers’ Peer Support Group (PSG), which pairs writers aiming for publication with volunteer peer readers. Current PSG members, those interested in becoming PSG members or more effective peer readers or reviewers, novices writing for publication, and researchers interested in peer-to-peer models would benefit from this session. Our annual general meeting follows immediately and is open to anyone who is interested.

This will be an opportunity for current Macquarie research students to share their research as a work-in-progress with fellow participants and alumni. It is a good way for participants to discuss their progress and problems, and receive constructive feedback and advice in an informal relaxed setting. Participants please prepare a short summary of your research (one side A4). Any Macquarie students and alumni are welcome to join, listen, and advise.

Chapter, SIG, and National JALT officers will present reports, discuss JALT business, and vote on motions. All JALT officers and committee members are encouraged to attend. All JALT members, especially those interested in becoming officers, are invited to observe the management of JALT business. 各支部、分野別研究部会、全国選出のJALT役員が報告書を提出し、JALTの運営について議論し、議案に投票します。JALTの役員および委員会のメンバーはぜひご出席ください。会員の皆様、特に役員になることに興味のある方は、JALTの運営について見学していただけます。

The EBM will be from 18:40 ~ 19:40, but the room will be open at 17:40 for those who would like to come and ask questions beforehand.

The JALT Financial Steering Committee will hold a meeting to discuss the current and future financial status of JALT. Any JALT member is welcome to attend and observe, but only FSC members can participate.

Are you all zoomed out? Well, save a little for our post EBM social. You will not regret it!