ISSN 2188-109X 一般社団法人 大 学 英 語 教 育 学 会 ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― March 2019 The Japan Association of College English Teachers No.204 ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― Contents Foreword (Naoko Ozeki) 1 Report from the Committee of 4 Report from Headquarters 2 Academic Affairs Reports from Chapters 5 Foreword Naoko Ozeki Vice-President of JACET Director, Committee of Academic Publication (Meiji University) To JACET members and supporters, Recently, JACET has been going through changes in terms of its evaluation of papers JACET publishes influential articles in the submitted to the JACET Journal and JACET JACET Journal, JACET International International Convention Selected Papers. One of Convention Selected Papers, and JAAL in JACET the most noticeable changes is the area of Proceedings, each of which is published annually, globalization. For example, since we have and provides an incentive for both researchers and established affiliations with various organizations instructors to do further research and improve such as JALT (Japan), AILA (international), their practice. ALAK (Korea), ETA-ROCK (Taiwan), and JACET 通信―――――――――――――――＜1＞―――――――――――――――――3189 RELC (Singapore), we have invited international of APA format will be a requirement for having a plenary speakers and guest speakers to our paper accepted in JACET publications. We are international conferences and summer seminars. looking forward to reading your future We have also invited these speakers to write submissions to our journals. articles about the topics they talked about at the conferences for the JACET Journals and Selected Papers. We hope that those who could not Report from the JACET Headquarters participate in the conferences or summer seminars will be able to share the main ideas and insights of Secretary General these speakers’ presentations by reading their Yukinari Shimoyama articles. (Toyo Gakuen University) Another example of globalization is JACET’s use of international reviewers. For example, in JACET Journals 62 and 63, Dr. Azlin Zaiti Binti JACET’s third election for Shain Zainal from MELTA (Malaysian English (Representative Members), which started with a Language Teaching Association) reviewed public announcement on October 1, 2018, was articles. This is beneficial for contributors and the completed on January 17, 2019. Eighty-one shain publication committee because papers are and fourteen substitute shain were elected without evaluated based on an international perspective. objection. Their term for shain is two years from The committee would like to increase the number April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2021. The list of shain of international reviewers. is on the JACET website. We would like to thank As for the areas of research of the JACET all the members of JACET for their support and Journal and Selected Papers, we have rearranged cooperation in this matter. the areas. Because submissions tended to be In 2018, JACET conducted a range of activities concentrated in one or two areas of research, we such as conferences, seminars, workshops, used to have trouble finding enough reviewers. publications, etc. Some of the most important Therefore, we have created new areas of study events in 2018 were The 1st JACET Summer(45th) such as motivation and cross-cultural and English Education(6th) Joint Seminar at Kyoto communication and assigned new reviewers for Prefectural University from August 20 to 22, the these areas. JACET 57th International Convention at Tohoku Finally, I would like to mention that reviewing Gakuin University from August 28 through 30, submissions that do not follow APA format is a and JAAL-in-JACET 2018 at Takachiho time-consuming task. Because only a few University on December 1. contributors follow APA format, we have decided In 2019, JACET will also host many to add the criterion of the format into the conferences, seminars and other events. We would evaluation of the paper. From now on, correct use like all JACET members to fully utilize these JACET 通信―――――――――――――――＜2＞―――――――――――――――――3190 opportunities. Detailed information on these events Venue: Kyoto Prefectural University in 2019 will be announced on the JACET website. Theme: Classroom Research Revisited: Who Are The schedule of the major events is as follows: the ‘Practitioners’? August 20-22, 2019: The 2nd JACET Summer August 27: The 3rd Board Meeting / Committee (46th) and English Education (7th) Joint Seminar Meetings (Tokyo, 2019) Venue: Tamagawa University August 28-30: JACET 57th International Theme: ELT Materials Development and Use: Convention Linking Theory and Practice Venue: Tohoku Gakuin University Theme: Assuring Quality Learning Outcomes in August 28-30, 2019: The 58th JACET Primary to Tertiary English Education for International Convention (Nagoya, 2019) Globalization Venue: Nagoya Institute of Technology Theme: Beyond ‘Borderless’: English Education August 29: JACET Award Ceremony / General in a Changing Society Membership Meeting (Venue: Tohoku Gakuin University) December 7, 2019: JAAL-in-JACET 2019 Venue: Takachiho University December: JACET Newsletter No. 203 / Member List 2018 As of December 1, 2018, JACET membership counted 2,556. We appreciate your cooperation. December 1: JAAL-in-JACET 2018 (Venue: We would like to ask for your continued support to Takachiho University) make 2019 even more successful and productive for JACET and its members. December 23: The 4th Board Meeting 【Main activities in the academic year 2018】 February, 2019: JACET Journal No. 63 May 20: The 1st Board Meeting March, 2019: JACET Newsletter No. 204 June 17: The 2nd Board Meeting / Shain Meeting March 17, 2019: The 5th Board Meeting August 16: JACET International Convention Selected Papers Volume 5 August 20-22: The 1st JACET Summer (45th) and English Education (6th) Joint Seminar JACET 通信―――――――――――――――＜3＞―――――――――――――――――3191 (Association Internationale de Linguistique Report from the JACET Committee Appliquée) since 1984. As an organization on Academic Affairs representing Japan, we have created JAAL in JACET to promote applied linguistics in Japan for Director more than three decades. At that time English Masaki Oda language teaching was believed to have been the (Tamagawa University) main subject of inquiry in applied linguistics. Some of you may remember that we hosted AILA In the 2017 academic year, the Committee of 1999 at Waseda University in which 2,300 Academic Affairs was established (Chair: Prof. scholars participated. This was a historical event Masao Aikawa, Kyoto University of Foreign for the applied linguistics community in Japan. Studies). The task of the committee includes However, it left us a big homework. international exchanges formerly handled by the It has been AILA’s policy to have only one Committee of International Affairs. JACET affiliate in a country. While it was evident from the currently has interchange agreements with the successful conference in 1999 that applied following academic organizations abroad; ALAK linguistics in Japan is neither limited to English (Korea), CELEA (China), ETA-ROC (Taiwan), linguistics nor to language teaching, one has to KATE (Korea), MELTA (Malaysia), PKETA join JACET to receive benefits for AILA affiliate (Korea), RELC (Singapore) and Thailand TESOL members, including discount registration fees for (Thailand). JACET also has an interchange AILA International conferences which are held agreement with JALT. We send our delegates to once in three years. In many regions such as their conferences and in turn, we receive their Korea, ALAK is an organization for applied delegates to our annual international conferences. linguistics (and AILA’s affiliate in Korea) which is In the past few years, the committee has been distinguished from English language teaching working hard to develop strategies for organizations such as KATE or PKETA. In collaboration with these organizations beyond the contrast, JAAL is still ‘in JACET’ for historical exchange of delegates. One example is the reasons, and thus JACET pays AILA its exchange of journal reviewers with MELTA. In membership fee for 200 members without cooperation with the committee on academic specifying individuals. A few other affiliates do publications, a JACET member served as a the same and this was the best possible option that reviewer for the journal published by MELTA, AILA and JACET could agree upon back in 1984. while a MELTA member has reviewed Due to the diversification of applied linguistics manuscripts submitted for our journal. We are in Japan both in terms of language(s) we deal with, planning to expand this type of cooperation with and the topics covered, we need to collaborate other organizations. with other academic organizations in Japan in JACET has been an affiliate of AILA order to help develop applied linguistics in Japan JACET 通信―――――――――――――――＜4＞―――――――――――――――――3192 further. In the past few years, JACET has invited will be completed. I would like to take this delegates from several academic organizations opportunity to thank Prof. Hisako Yamauchi, specialized in teaching languages other than former Vice President of JACET who has also English to present posters, while beginning to served as AILA EB member-at-large for many discuss possible collaboration. years for her ground work at initial stages of AILA One of such attempts was the 1st JAAL in East Asia. JACET meeting which was held at Takachiho University in Tokyo on December 1st, 2018 in cooperation with JACET’s committee on research promotion as well as SIGs. It was a successful