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. You can also add these upcoming conferences to your calendar.

March 2021

The 3rd JACET Summer (47th) and English Education (8th) Joint Seminar
Dates: March 8th (Monday) - March 9th (Tuesday), 2021
Organization: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Location: Online

May 2021

Osaka JALT Back to School 2021 Mini-conference
Date: May 9th (Sunday), 2021
Call for papers due: April 4th (Sunday)
Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Online

PanSIG 2021
Dates: May 15th (Saturday) - May 16th (Sunday), 2021
Organization: JALT PanSIG Conference
Location: At least partially online, and partially at Nihon University, College of International Relations, Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture

June 2021

JALTCALL2021 (extended deadline)
Dates: June 4th (Friday) - June 6th (Sunday), 2021
Call for papers due: March 8th (Monday)
Organization: Computer-Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hybrid: Hirosaki Gakuin University, Hirosaki and virtually online

November 2021

JALT2021
Dates: November 12th (Friday) - November 15th (Monday), 2021
Call for papers due: March 14th (Sunday)
Organization: The Annual International Conference of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Shizuoka