The Performance In Education SIG of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) sponsors several conferences a year, usually in convenient and interesting locations, with workshops, presentations, and performances. Families are always welcome.
“We are always trying to grow and spread our message through collaboration with YOU.”
What draws many people to the PIE SIG are the amazing and effective activities described by SIG members, the creative talents of the teachers/performers, and most of all, the warm, friendly atmosphere that we work hard to create. We are useful and FUN.
Want to collaborate with us? Contact us at jaltpiesig@gmail.com if you are in the collaborative mood or come and see for yourself what we are about at our annual Performance in Education Research & Practice Conference.
- The Annual Performance in Education SIG in Okinawa Conference (March 3-5, 2023) Registration & Call for Papers
***Registration for non-presenting attendees can be found by clicking HERE.
The conference program and schedule will be available at this link.
The Performance in Education SIG is returning to Okinawa for a face-to-face conference in March of 2023.
The site of the conference is the beautiful Hotel Mahaina Wellness Resort in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan.
The call for papers for research and practical presentations and performances can be submitted HERE.
DEADLINE: Sunday, January 15, 2023, JST.
(Notification of acceptance will be sent by Sunday, January 29, 2023.)
Expert PIE Speakers
Kim Rockell
Komazawa UniversityAssociate Professor Kim Rockell is an ethnomusicologist and classical guitarist who currently teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Komazawa University in Tokyo. His research interests encompass plucked-string traditions, Philippine rondalla and Hispanic musical influences in the Asia Pacific, migrant music and music in diaspora, and the music/language nexus. Recently, while learning to perform traditional Noh in Japan, he has begun to explore the educational potential of English language Noh.
Music and Performance in Education: A Personal Retrospective (2012-2022)
This talk traces the trajectory of my decade-long Japan-based research on music and performance in education. It introduces past projects that have explored the strategies and strengths teachers with musical backgrounds bring to language teaching, and how these musical strategies can be applied to computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The teaching of musical performance and ethnomusicology in English medium in both Tohoku and Tokyo as well as the development of musical theater in English based on traditional Japanese Noh are also described. Finally, the talk touches on more recent work on intercultural performance and semiotic clusters, which continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic up to the present time.
James Carpenter
Rikkyo UniversityJames Carpenter is interested in how people learn in unique situations. He is currently conducting research with learners and teachers from a school for the visually impaired in Tokyo.
Researching Communicative Practices in Performance-Based Education
In this presentation, I will introduce an approach to mix-methods research that combines ethnomethodology with quantitative analysis. Drawing on my own research at a school for the visually impaired, I will attempt to persuade you that this perspective is useful for researching performance-based education in new ways. My research is based on Firth and Wagner’s (1997) inauguration of the “social turn,” and is one way SLA/T researchers have continued to investigate how foreign languages are used as they are being acquired. In this presentation I will focus on variations of the conversation analytic/ethnomethodological perspective. This should help both beginning researchers and experienced ones.
James Carpenter
George MacLean
University of the RyukyusTBA (Topic: On Feedback)
Max Diaz
The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityTBA
David Kluge
Nanzan UniversityResearch in Performance in Education
Events
- The Annual Performance in Education SIG in Okinawa Conference (March 3-5, 2023) Registration & Call for Papers***Registration for non-presenting attendees can be found by clicking HERE. The conference program and schedule will be available at this link. The Performance in Education SIG is returning to Okinawa for a face-to-face conference in March of 2023. The site of the conference is the beautiful Hotel Mahaina Wellness Resort in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan. The… Continue reading The Annual Performance in Education SIG in Okinawa Conference (March 3-5, 2023) Registration & Call for Papers
- Third Annual PIE SIG in Sapporo Conference (Feb 4-5, 2023) Call for Papers & Registration***Registration for non-presenting attendees can be found by clicking HERE. The conference program and schedule will be available at this link. The Third Annual PIE SIG in Sapporo Conference will be held in Sapporo, Japan from February 4th-5th, 2023. This face-to-face conference will be held during the Sapporo Snow Festival (unless the festival is canceled due to… Continue reading Third Annual PIE SIG in Sapporo Conference (Feb 4-5, 2023) Call for Papers & Registration
- The 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice PIE SIG in Gero (Gifu) Conference (January 14-15, 2023)The 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference, originally scheduled for July 30-31, 2022 but postponed due to the COVID-19 situation, has been rescheduled to January 14-15, 2023. The Conference will be held in the famous mountain hot spring town of Gero in Gifu prefecture. The site of the conference is the wonderfully designed… Continue reading The 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice PIE SIG in Gero (Gifu) Conference (January 14-15, 2023)
- JALT PIE SIG Forum 2022Please click here for the Zoom link
- Status of 4th PIE ConferenceDear Colleague, News this morning is that Nagoya is experiencing its highest number of COVID cases in the pandemic. The increasing numbers of cases also depressed conference attendance. We will be postponing the full conference until later this year. Instead of the full conference planned, some speakers and attendees requested a reduced FREE ONLINE conference… Continue reading Status of 4th PIE Conference
- Call & Registration: 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference/Student Showcase/Film Festival4th PIE Conference (July 29-31) Information The Performance in Education Special Interest Group (PIE SIG) and the Okinawa chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) invite presenters and attendees to join us at the 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference/Student Showcase/Film Festival (4th PIE). Conference Location and Mode 4th PIE will… Continue reading Call & Registration: 4th Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference/Student Showcase/Film Festival
- The Third Performance in Education: Research & Practice ConferenceThe Third Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference with Student Showcase, Film Festival, & Performances Hey PIE scholars, check it out! These outstanding researchers will be digging deeper into theory and how performance activities lead to successful learning this coming Saturday, September 18th, at the Performance in Education: Research and Practice ONLINE Conference. Scene… Continue reading The Third Performance in Education: Research & Practice Conference