July 2-3, 2011

Toyo Gakuen University (Hongo Campus), Tokyo, Japan

JALT CUE SIG is pleased that the CUE 2011 Conference will be held July 2-3, 2011, at Toyo Gakuen University, Hongo Campus.

The conference theme will be "Foreign Language Motivation in Japan."

CUE 2011 will have six invited speakers:

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Ema Ushioda

Ema Ushioda is an associate professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. She has been working in language education since 1982 and obtained her PhD from Trinity College, Dublin, where she developed institution-wide language programmes and an Irish version of the European Language Portfolio. Her main research interests are learner motivation, autonomy and teacher development. Publications include Learner Autonomy 5: The Role of Motivation (Authentik, 1996), Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (co-edited by Zoltán Dörnyei, Multilingual Matters, 2009), and Teaching and Researching Motivation (co-authored by Zoltán Dörnyei, Longman, 2010).

Dr. Kimberly Noels

Kimberly A. Noels is a professor in the Social and Cultural Psychology area of the Department of Psychology and an adjunct professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her award-winning research concerns the social psychology of language and communication processes, with a focus on intercultural communication. Currently, her program of research involves two lines of inquiry. The first concerns motivation for language learning, with a focus on how people’s experience of self-determination is affected by the social context in which they live and learn. The second centers on the role of communication in the process of cross-cultural adaptation, particularly how the languages we speak are linked to feelings of ethnic identity.

Featured Presenters

Dr. Yoshiyuki Nakata

Yoshiyuki Nakata, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English language education and of the Joint Graduate School in Science of School Education at Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Hyogo, Japan. His research interests include language learning motivation and teacher/learner autonomy in the Japanese EFL context.
Dr. Nakata’s recent publications include: Motivation and experience in foreign language learning (2006, Oxford: Peter Lang); Intrinsic motivation in the EFL school context: A retrospective study of English learning experience of Japanese elementary schools. The Journal of Asia TEFL, 6), 2009; Towards a framework for self-regulated language learning. TESL Canada Journal, 27, 2010.

Dr. Tomoko Yashima

Tomoko Yashima is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at Kansai University. Her research interests include intercultural contact, acculturation, language identity, as well as attitudes, motivation and affect in L2 communication. Major publications include Motivation and affect in Foreign Language Communication (Kansai University Press, 2004); Willingness to communicate in L2: The Japanese EFL context , The Modern Language Journal, 86, 2002; The influence of attitude and affect on willingness to communicate and second language communication. Language Learning, 54, 2004; The impact of learning contexts on proficiency, attitudes, and L2 communication: Creating an imagined international community. System, 36,, 2008; International Posture and the ideal L2 self in the Japanese EFL context. In Dörnyei, Z. and Ushioda, E. (Eds.) Motivation, language identity and the L2 self. Multilingual Matters, 2009; The effects of international volunteer work experiences on intercultural competence of Japanese youth. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34, 2010.

Dr. Tomohito Hiromori

Tomohito Hiromori is Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan University. His work focuses mostly on various aspects of individual differences (e.g., language learner motivation and strategies) and second language acquisition. He is the author of several books, including Theories and Practices that Increase the Motivation of Foreign Language Learners (2006, Taga Shuppan), The Learning Strategies Handbook for English Teachers (2006, Taishukan, co-edited) and Learner Development in English Education: Learner Factors and Autonomous Learning (in press, Taishukan, co-edited). His research has also appeared in a number of international journals, including International Review of Applied Linguistics (2003, co-authored) and System (2009).

Prof. Keita Kikuchi

Keita Kikuchi is a Junior Associate Professor at Tokai University, Japan. After obtaining an M.A. in ESL from the University of Hawai'i he has taught English in Singapore and in Japan. His research interests include curriculum development and second language acquisition, especially individual differences and task based language teaching. His recent publications include: Listening to our learners' voices: What demotivates EFL high school students? Language Teaching Research, 13, 2009; Japanese learners' demotivation to study English: A survey study. JALT Journal, 31, 2009; An analysis of demotivators in the EFL Classroom. System, 37, 2009.

CUE 2011 Conference web site, Call for Presentations, book project and OnCUE Journal Special Theme Issue

• The CUE 2011 Conference web page is still under construction (as of July, 2011).
• The CUE 2011 Conference Call for Presentations will be announced on the conference web site toward the fall of 2011.
• CUE SIG will be accepting paper submissions for a special book project tentatively titled Foreign Language Motivation in Japan (edited by Dexter Da Silva, John Gunning, Terry Fellner, and Matthew Apple) tied into the CUE 2011 Conference theme of foreign language motivation in Japan. More information about the book will appear on the conference web site.
• There will be a special motivation theme issue of the OnCUE Journal, 6(2), to appear in the late summer of 2012. A call for papers will appear on the CUE 2011 Conference web site.

Check back on this web site for links to the conference website and information about the book project and OnCUE Journal special theme issue.

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