Really nice building, KUIS!

友人の研究者が、日本の大学で働く英語教員を対象にバーンアウト（燃え尽き症候群）について調査しています。仕事上のストレスやその影響を探る重要な研究です。よかったらご協力ください！ Friends of mine are conducting research on burnout among university EFL teachers in Japan, aiming to

Destroying your own higher education institutions. State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/…

Really enjoyed this talk about emotions by Dr Pentón Herrera youtube.com/live/vmbxbr_EZ…

TBLT, Engagement, and Group Synchronicity. A simple classroom observation. Another hot mess! Free download. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/te…

Self‐Efficacy and Collective‐Efficacy as Predictors of Engagement in Group Conversation - Leeming - TESOL Quarterly - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/te…

Exploring L2 postgraduate students’ engagement with supervisor feedback in academic writing - Xiaolong Cheng, Lawrence Jun Zhang, Timothy JE Neufeld, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings? - Rubach - British Journal of Educational Psychology - Wiley Online Library bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Upcoming TBLSIG events will be in Tokyo, Okinawa, and Nagoya. Stay tuned! #JALT

I finally have some time to work! Preparing one paper, and waiting for my smarter colleagues to revise the other paper. Though I am very behind on my planned work, I do have a very cute baby to blame for that. At 5-weeks old he finally has given his dad time to breathe.

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Trans-speakerism（Routledge, 2025）の出版記念オンラインイベント。編者と執筆者がそれぞれ発表し、そのあとに参加者との質疑応答もあるとのことです。ぜひご参加ください！ Online event celebrating the publication of Trans-speakerism (Routledge, 2025)! Editors and contributors will give

Topics in #TBLT: "Materials Design" will be held at the Okinawa Prefecture Gender Equality Center, in Naha Okinawa, Japan on January 17 and 18th, 2026. A call for papers is now open until November 30th. Please see tbl.jalt.org/events/topics-… for more details. #JALT

University of Leicester is in pre-change engagement to close or merge multiple departments including the abolishment of the School of Education which includes the MA in TESOL and PhD in Applied Linguistic programs. Additionally, the Modern Languages program is under attack.

New in #TESOLJournal! Empirical Feature (OA): Olcay Sert & Mika Ishino: “Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality” in a Sweden–Japan telecollaboration where student-teachers co-notice classroom interaction. See how ‘learning to see’ travels across cultures! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/te…

Please retweet! TBLT has a great event in Okinawa in January. A perfect time to enjoy nice weather and a great TBLT related event. More to come next week about TBLT in Asia 2026.

Very happy to announce: TBLT in Asia 2026 June 5th-7th, 2026 Waseda University (Toyama Campus), Tokyo Price: TBA Plenaries: Marta González-Lloret & Yuko Goto Butler Call for Presentations: Due Feb. 15th, 2026 sites.google.com/jalt.org/confe…

Sorry all. My new boss said I can't go to JALT this year. Hope everyone has a nice time in Tokyo. See you next year. Also my new boss:

Great paper as always. Can't wait to see this framework grow promoting positivism to all language teachers. Especially in other contexts outside of Japan.

Arai, Y., Matsuura, R., Eguchi, M., & Suzuki, S. (2025). Tracking the Longitudinal Change of Flow Experience in an EFL Conversation Course. The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 1–18. Retrieved from jpll.org/index.php/jour…