ART SIG of JALT:

IMPACT 2025 Integrating Multimodal Projects with Art and Critical Thinking

Date: Saturday, December 20th, 2025 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Hosted by Craig Mertens (Kwansei Gakuin University) and Todd Hooper (Setsunan University); call for presentations due November 11th, 2025

Description:
This full-day, hands-on workshop empowers EFL educators in Japan to design and deliver creative, multimodal projects and lesson plans that promote critical thinking and English language output. Through collaboration, peer sharing, practical frameworks, and real-time project design, participants will explore how images, audio, video, literature, and drama can be used in the classroom to develop fluency, creativity, and reflection. By the end of the day, each group will have produced and shared a sample EFL project along with a supporting lesson plan that can be implemented into the curriculum of various EFL courses. For more information, see the event post on jalt.org.

Call for presentations

The JALT ART and Critical Thinking SIGs are happy to announce that we are accepting proposals for presentations to be given at Integrating Multimodal Projects with Art and Critical Thinking 2025 (IMPACT 2025), a full-day workshop event to be held on December 20th, 2025, from 9:20 to 16:40 at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Hyogo. The deadline for submissions is November 11th, 2025. https://forms.gle/yirjqM1UoJd66BBH7

Organization: Art, Research, and Teaching Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching (ART SIG of JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: 1,000 yen (500 yen for JALT students)
Non-members: 2,000 yen (1,000 yen for non-JALT students)

Venue: Kwansei Gakuin University, Uegahara campus, 1-155 Uegahara 1 bancho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-8501

Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

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