Vocabulary SIG of JALT Archive

This is an archive of all of the past events of Vocabulary Special Interest Group, Japan Association for Language Teaching on ELT Calendar.

September 26th (Saturday) 2026
2026 Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Invited Discussant: Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University); Keynote and invited speakers: John M. Gayed (Waseda U), Christopher Cooper (Waseda U), Liang Ye Tan (Momoyama Gakuin U), Satoru Uchida (Kyushu U)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

October 7th (Saturday) 2023
2023 Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Call for Poster Session Presentations open until July 17
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 21st (Sunday) 2020
JALT PanSIG 2020 Conference Online (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: See the PanSIG website for details
Location: Online, Online Events

June 20th (Saturday) 2020
JALT PanSIG 2020 Conference (ONLINE)
Speaker: See the PanSIG website for details
Location: Online, Online Events

October 12th (Saturday) 2019
CANCELLED: 8th Annual Vocabulary Symposium 2019
Speaker: Irina Elgort (Victoria University of Wellington), Tatsuya Nakata (Hosei University). Call for posters due August 31
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

May 19th (Sunday) 2019
PanSIG 2019 Conference (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Call for papers due December 22, 2018
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

May 18th (Saturday) 2019
PanSIG 2019 Conference (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Call for papers due December 22, 2018
Location: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

September 15th (Saturday) 2018
7th Annual Vocabulary Symposium 2018
Speaker: Call for posters extended to June 7, 2018
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

May 20th (Sunday) 2018
PanSIG 2018 Conference (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Call for papers due January 15, 2018
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

May 19th (Saturday) 2018
JALT PanSIG 2018 Conference (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Call for papers due January 15, 2018
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

September 9th (Saturday) 2017
2017 Annual JALT Vocabulary SIG Symposium: Learning/cognition and corpus linguistics
Speaker: David Beglar, Jenifer Larson-Hall, Robert Nelson, Yu Kanazawa, Phil Bennett, Laurence Anthony, Dale Brown, Paul Lyddon, Rock Romanko
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

May 21st (Sunday) 2017
PanSIG 2017 Conference (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Many great speakers!
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture

May 20th (Saturday) 2017
PanSIG 2017 Conference (day 1 of 2)
Speaker: Many great speakers!
Location: Akita City, Akita Prefecture

May 22nd (Sunday) 2016
PanSIG 2016 Conference (day 3 of 4)
Speaker: Many presenters
Location: Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture

May 21st (Saturday) 2016
PanSIG 2016 Conference (day 2 of 4)
Speaker: Many speakers
Location: Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture

September 13th (Sunday) 2015
2015 Vocabulary Learning and Testing Colloquium
Speaker: Several speakers
Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

June 20th (Saturday) 2015
2015 Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Featured Discussants: Stuart Webb and Rie Koizume
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

September 28th (Sunday) 2014
7th Annual Extensive Reading Seminar: Covering the Text: Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
Speaker: Plenaries by Charles Browne and Junko Yamashita. Call for posters due July 15
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis

June 14th (Saturday) 2014
2014 Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Featured discussants: Batia Laufer and Akiyo Hirai. Call for posters due March 30th.
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

June 29th (Saturday) 2013
The Annual JALT Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Featured discussants Paul Nation and Yo In'nami; morning plenary by Rob Waring
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture

May 19th (Sunday) 2013
JALT PanSIG2013: From Many, One: Collaboration, Cooperation, and Community (day 2 of 2)
Speaker: Plenary speaker Judith Hanks; Call for papers due February 15th, 2013
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 18th (Saturday) 2013
JALT PanSIG2013: From Many, One: Collaboration, Cooperation, and Community
Speaker: Plenary speaker Judith Hanks; Call for papers due February 15th, 2013
Location: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture

May 19th (Saturday) 2012
Spreading the Good Word: Introducing the Vocabulary SIG
Speaker: Charles Browne, Rory Rosszell, Jeffrey Stewart, Charles J. Anderson, and Rob Waring.
Location: Kokubunji City, Tokyo Metropolis

March 3rd (Saturday) 2012
The First Annual JALT Vocabulary Symposium
Speaker: Masamichi Mochizuki, Shigenori Tanaka, more
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture