December 29th, 2016
Dear FLP SIG members,
FLP SIG is looking back on a year with a big international conference and editing a volume with the results of the second Kaken research project. The fruits will be visible in February 2017 with the publication of the English Profile Studies volume 6.
The third Kaken project had been granted in April 2016. FLP SIG is looking forward to 2017 in not only presenting the results, but in conducting more research for the third Kaken project, developing a hands-on tool kit for teachers for using the CEFR efficiently.
The FLP SIG Newsletter No. 16 is now available bringing important information.
Thank you for you cooperation and support of FLP SIG.
We wish you a pleasant and relaxing year-end.
Gabriela Schmidt (coordinator) with all officers
Outlook on 2017 on FLP SIG related events
January 2017
15th - Deadline for JALT PAN SIG in Akita
https://pansig.org/
February 2017
13th - Deadline for JALT International Conference in Tsukuba
http://jalt.org/conference
24 th: Bremen Symposium, CEFR-related conference, in Germany
March 2017
5th: Language Education Expo (Tokyo, Waseda University)
May 2017
19th-21st: PanSIG in Akita
FLP SIG Forum
August 2017
29th - 31st: JACET at Aoyama Gakuin University (End of August 2017)
November 2017
17th - 20th: JALT 2017 in Tsukuba
FLP SIG AGM
FLP SIG Forum
Other events are planned but not yet finally scheduled:
Joint event with LD SIG and Nagoya Chapter/Gifu Chapter
Joint event with Tokyo Chapter
Mini-conference
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Since April 2016
K A K E N I I I is granted
FLP SIG is granted the third Grant-in-Aid project in a row:
This is the 6th consecutive year of CEFR-related research
involving members of our SIG!
The purpose of a new Kaken project
, “Designing a support system for an innovative language education”
is to develop a portal site to help stakeholders who are engaged in an innovative language education reforms based on the CEFR. The project aims to accomplish the following through the academic year of 2016 to 2019:
(1) Seek for CEFR related resources and identify information on philosophy and purposes of the CEFR, syllabus and curriculum design, learners’ assessment, and devices for teacher training.
(2) Edit and arrange the information identified in a user-friendly manner and put them up in a portal site
(3) Operate the portal site and examine its usability.
Get involved!!!
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Still hot: New CEFR-informed EAP (CLIL) textbook :
As a result of the Grant-in-aid research project (JSPS no. 24520611) conducted between April 2012 and March 2015 by Naoyuki Naganuma, Noriko Nagai, Fergus O’Dwyer, Alexander Imig is now published a CEFR-informed textbook for English for Academic Purposes on the basis of C
Naoyuki Naganuma/ Noriko Nagai/Fergus O’Dwyer
Connections to thinking in English:
The CEFR-informed EAP textbook series (B1 (A2+) to B1+).
Tokyo, Asahi press (February 2015).
ISBN: 978-4-255-15561-6. 2200 Yen + tax
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(Updated on December 29th, 2016 MGS)
