Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

About JALT

The Japan Asso­ci­a­tion for Lan­guage Teach­ing (JALT) is a non­profit organ­i­sa­tion ded­i­cated to the improve­ment of lan­guage teach­ing and learn­ing with nearly 3,000 mem­bers in chap­ters and affil­i­ates across Japan as well as mem­bers abroad. Over 800 JALT mem­bers belong to one or more of the fol­low­ing Spe­cial Inter­est Groups (SIGs):

• Bilin­gual­ism (BIL) SIG
• Busi­ness Eng­lish (BE) SIG
• Col­lege and Uni­ver­sity Edu­ca­tors (CUE) SIG
• Com­puter Assisted Lan­guage Learn­ing (CALL) SIG
• Crit­i­cal Think­ing (CT) SIG
• Exten­sive Read­ing (ER) SIG
• Frame­work and Lan­guage Port­fo­lio (FLP) SIG
• Gen­der Aware­ness in Lan­guage Edu­ca­tion (GALE) SIG
• Global Issues in Lan­guage Edu­ca­tion (GILE) SIG
• Japan­ese as a Sec­ond Lan­guage (JSL) SIG
• Junior & Senior High School (JSHS) SIG
• Learner Devel­op­ment (LD) SIG
• Life­long Lan­guage Learn­ing (LLL) SIG
• Lit­er­a­ture in Lan­guage Teach­ing (LILT) SIG
• Mate­ri­als Writ­ers (MW) SIG
• Other Lan­guage Edu­ca­tors (OLE) SIG
• Prag­mat­ics (PRAG) SIG
• Pro­fes­sion­al­ism, Admin­is­tra­tion and Lead­er­ship in Edu­ca­tion (PALE) SIG
• Speech, Drama, & Debate (SD & D) SIG
• Study Abroad (SA) SIG
• Task Based Learn­ing (TBL) SIG
• Teacher Edu­ca­tion and Devel­op­ment (TED) SIG
• Teach­ers Help­ing Teach­ers (THT) SIG
• Teach­ing Chil­dren (TC) SIG
• Test­ing and Eval­u­a­tion (TEVAL) SIG
• Vocab­u­lary (VOCAB) SIG

Membership

You can eas­ily join or renew your mem­ber­ship online. JALT mem­ber­ship offers the fol­low­ing benefits:

• Admit­tance to JALT events includ­ing the annual inter­na­tional con­fer­ence at mem­ber rates.
• Most chap­ters hold reg­u­lar meet­ings, atten­dance of which is free or at reduced rates for members.
• Mem­bers also receive copies of JALT’s two main pub­li­ca­tions; The Lan­guage Teacher and JALT Jour­nal.

Publications

The Lan­guage Teacher

The Lan­guage Teacher, the bimonthly pub­li­ca­tion of the Japan Asso­ci­a­tion for Lan­guage Teach­ing, pub­lishes arti­cles and other mate­r­ial related to lan­guage teach­ing, par­tic­u­larly in an Asian con­text. TLT also serves the impor­tant role of pub­li­ciz­ing infor­ma­tion about the orga­ni­za­tion and its many events.

JALT Journal

JALT Jour­nal is the research jour­nal of the Japan Asso­ci­a­tion for Lan­guage Teach­ing. It is pub­lished semi­an­nu­ally, in May and Novem­ber, and con­tains arti­cles, per­spec­tives and reviews.

JALT Con­fer­ence Proceedings

The JALT Con­fer­ence Pro­ceed­ings are annual vol­umes pro­duced by the Con­fer­ence Pub­li­ca­tions Com­mit­tee of the Japan Asso­ci­a­tion for Lan­guage Teach­ing. They stand as a record of our con­fer­ences — what was pre­sented, and what was sub­se­quently achieved.

SIG Publications

There are also a num­ber of pub­li­ca­tions put out by JALT SIGs. See the links below for details.

• B-​SIG Pub­li­ca­tions—Pub­li­ca­tions of the Bilin­gual­ism SIG
• Between the Keys— The offi­cial newslet­ter of the Mate­ri­als Writ­ers SIG
• The JALT CALL Jour­nal—The jour­nal of the CALL SIG
• Explo­rations in Teacher Edu­ca­tion—The Teacher Edu­ca­tion and Devel­op­ment SIG newsletter
• Global Issues in Lan­guage Edu­ca­tion—The Global Issues in Lan­guage Edu­ca­tion SIG newslet­ter archives; over 100 arti­cles online.
• Learn­ing Learn­ing—The Learner Devel­op­ment SIG newsletter
• The LLL SIG Newslet­ter—The offi­cial newslet­ter of the Life­long Lan­guage Learn­ing SIG (Orig­i­nally “TOLd You So!”)
• On CUE—The Col­lege & Uni­ver­sity Edu­ca­tors’ SIG journal
• JALT Pan-​SIG Con­fer­ence Pro­ceed­ings—Once a year the pro­ceed­ings of each annual Pan-​SIG con­fer­ence of JALT is pub­lished online. The pro­ceed­ings of all pre­vi­ous JALT Pan-​SIG con­fer­ence are found on this site.
• The School House—The Junior Senior High School SIG newsletter
• Shiken—The Test­ing & Eval­u­a­tion SIG newsletter
• TLC (Teach­ers Learn­ing with Chil­dren)—The Teach­ing Chil­dren SIG bilin­gual newsletter