ELT Conference Calendar

This page shows upcoming conferences, book fairs and other large-scale events of professional interest to language teachers in Japan. For past conferences, see the archive of past conferences. If you're interested in giving a workshop or presentation at one of these events, please see the calls for papers.

July 2017

Summer Seminar: Business and Intercultural Negotiation
Dates: July 1st (Saturday) - July 2nd (Sunday), 2017
Organization: The Business English Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kansai University, Osaka

JACET Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter 28th Annual Chapter Conference
Date: July 8th (Saturday), 2017
Organization: Kyushu-Okinawa Chapter of the Japan Association of College English Teachers
Location: University of Miyazaki, Kibana Campus

15th International Asia TEFL Conference
Dates: July 13th (Thursday) - July 15th (Saturday), 2017
Organization: The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
Location: Royal Ambarrukmo Hotel in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Culture and Language Symposium 2017
Date: July 28th (Friday), 2017
Organization: Aichi University Faculty of International Communication
Location: Aichi University, Nagoya Campus

JALT Task-Based Language Teaching SIG Mini-Conference
Date: July 29th (Saturday), 2017
Organization: Task Based Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Temple University, Osaka

August 2017

The Fourth World Congress on Extensive Reading
Dates: August 4th (Friday) - August 7th (Monday), 2017
Organization: Extensive Reading Foundation
Location: Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo.

Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2017
Dates: August 7th (Monday) - August 9th (Wednesday), 2017
Organization: Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium
Location: Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

JACET 2017: The 56th International Convention
Dates: August 29th (Tuesday) - August 31st (Thursday), 2017
Organization: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Location: Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo

September 2017

JLTA 2017: The 21st Annual Conference of the Japan Language Testing Association
Dates: September 9th (Saturday) - September 10th (Sunday), 2017
Organization: The Japan Language Testing Association
Location: University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture

CUE English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Symposium
Date: September 16th (Saturday), 2017
Call for papers due: June 30th (Friday)
Organization: College and University Educators Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Keio University, Tokyo

1st International Conference on Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts
Dates: September 21st (Thursday) - September 24th (Sunday), 2017
Organization: Intercultural Dialogue through the Arts Conference
Location: Saga (Sept. 22-22) and Fukuoka (Sept. 23-24)

October 2017

JALT Hokkaido Annual Conference - Words for Learning
Date: October 1st (Sunday), 2017
Call for papers due: July 16th (Sunday)
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo

2017 KOTESOL International Conference
Dates: October 21st (Saturday) - October 22nd (Sunday), 2017
Organization: Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Location: Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea

November 2017

JALT2017: 43rd Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning
Dates: November 17th (Friday) - November 20th (Monday), 2017
Organization: The Annual International Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Tsukuba International Congress Center (Epochal Tsukuba), Tsukuba, Ibaraki

AsiaCALL 2017
Dates: November 24th (Friday) - November 26th (Sunday), 2017
Call for papers due: July 15th (Saturday)
Organization: Asia Association of Computer Assisted Language Learning
Location: Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

December 2017

JASAL 2017 Annual Conference: Enriching Self-Access Environments
Date: December 16th (Saturday), 2017
Call for papers due: September 3rd (Sunday)
Organization: The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning
Location: Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba

The 5th BOLT/UFLS-UD Language Education Conference: Innovative Language Teaching
Dates: December 16th (Saturday) - December 17th (Sunday), 2017
Organization: Balsamo Outreach For Learning And Teaching NPO
Location: University of Foreign Languages, Danang University, Da Nang, Vietnam