Please reply to Gabriela Schmidt: sponsors@pansig.org

Dear Sponsor,

Thank you for your interest in the 24th PanSIG2025 conferencebeing held May 17-18, 2025 at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Mihama Ward, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. There will be four pre-conference workshops for professional development in the evening on May 16, 2025. The conference chair is Robert Dykes; the site co-chairs are Jennie Roloff Rothman and Prateek Sharma.

PanSIG is the second-largest annual conference in JALT organized by volunteers of the JALT SIGs (Special Interest Groups). This year’s theme is Agency and Autonomy in Language Education and we confirmed as plenary speakers Johnmarshall Reeve (Professor at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney) and Toshie Agawa (Professor at Hoshi University, Tokyo).

The number of attendees at PanSIG conferences has surpassed 500, a constant development since surpassing 400 in 2018, this year with more than 200 presentations. PanSIG offers opportunities for community-like professional development with a friendly atmosphere at the KUIS Campus in Chiba. We are warmly welcoming all JALT and non-JALT Sponsors to participate in this conference. For those who are joining us for the first time don’t hesitate to ask for help and to those who have been involved in PanSIG for a long time, thank you for your continuous support! Please join the JALT PanSIG2025 conference being easily accessible from the metropolitan center of Tokyo.

Sincerely,

Sponsor liaison, Gabriela Schmidt <sponsors@pansig.org>
For more details see https://pansig.org/2025