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Greetings from the Chair
We hope to see you at the 11th Annual Pan-SIG Conference on June 16-17, 2012 at Hiroshima University (Higashi Hiroshima campus). This conference is a collaboration of 22 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching). This year the following SIGs will be participating: Bilingualism (BSIG), College and University Educators (CUE), Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Critical Thinking (CT), Extensive Reading (ER), Framework and Language Portfolio (FLP), Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE), Global Issues in Language Education (GILE), Japanese as a Second Language (JSL), Junior and Senior High School (JSHS), Learner Development (LD), Materials Writers (MW), Other Language Educators (OLE), Pragmatics (PRAG), Professionalism, Administration and Leadership in Education (PALE), Speech, Drama and Debate (SDD), Study Abroad (SA), Task-based Learning (TBL), Teacher Education and Development (TED), Teachers Helping Teachers (THT), Teaching Children (TC), and Testing and Evaluation (TEVAL).
We would also like to thank Hiroshima University for letting us use their facilities to make this conference happen, and for the untiring work of the volunteers from the Hiroshima chapter of JALT as well as other dedicated JALT members. We look forward to seeing you in Hiroshima!
Naomi Fujishima
PanSIG 2012
Conference Chair