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ATJ Seminar 2004

Thursday, March 4, 2004

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The 2004 ATJ Seminar took place at the Town and Country Resort (http://www.towncountry.com) in San Diego, CA, on Thursday, March 4, 2004, from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Seminar featured a full day of concurrent sessions with presentations by ATJ members on linguistics, pedagogy, second-language acquisition, and literature. The program also featured panels sponsored by the Professional Development SIG and the Heritage Language SIG, and closed with a keynote address by Dr. Susumu Kuno of Harvard University.

Sessions were held concurrently beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the Sheffield, Hampton, Windsor, and Garden Suite 2 Rooms of the Town and Country Resort. The hotel's web site (http://www.towncountry.com) has maps which can be used to locate the meeting rooms.

Admission was free for members of ATJ and our sister organization the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT). There was a registration fee of $35 for non-members.

Information on hotel accommodations can be found at the web site of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), http://www.aasianst.org, whose conference is held at the same venue beginning the evening of March 4.

The full schedule for the 2004 ATJ Seminar, including times and room assignments, can be found by clicking here. It contains links to abstracts, which are also indexed by Author and Title.

Abstract Links
By Author
By Schedule
By Title

***The following 2004 Seminar submission template is only for reference. You can no longer submit Seminar proposals.***

• Individual papers
• Organized panels

The following were the guidelines for submission for 2004 proposals:

The Association of Teachers of Japanese calls for papers/panels in the areas of Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Literature, Second Language Acquisition in Japanese, and Japanese Language Pedagogy. ATJ also welcomes session proposals from the Association's Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Individual papers are 20 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Organized panels are 100 minutes long in total and should be limited to four active participants (four paper presenters, or three presenters and one discussant). An abstract for an individual paper should be no more than 300 words in English (or 700 characters in Japanese). For organized panels, a maximum 300-word (or 700 characters in Japanese) abstract is required from each participant, in addition to a maximum 300-word (or 700 characters in Japanese) abstract for the panel itself.

Submission of abstracts is accepted either on-line from links below or by mail. If submitting by mail, please send five copies of abstracts (including title and language of presentation, but not showing the name of authors) and a single 3"x5" card indicating: (1) subject area; (2) the title of the paper (along with the English title, if in Japanese); (3) author's name; (4) author's address; (5) author's affiliation; (6) phone and fax number; (7) email address; and (8) any equipment needs to:

Seminar Committee Chair, Prof. Yuki Johnson
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto,
130 St. George St. #14-087 Toronto, ON M5S-3H1.

Deadline: October 31, 2003.
In addition, please pay attention to the following in submitting your abstract:
1) All presenters must be ATJ members. The membership form can be downloaded from the ATJ web site. Please submit it to the ATJ office accordingly by the end of February.
2) We reserve the right to limit each submitter to one paper in any authorship status.
3) Any information that may reveal your identity should not be included in the abstract.
4) Due to the high cost of renting AV equipment, there will be a charge for presenters who wish to give computer-based presentations using an LCD projector.

Selection of papers/panels will be made by the planning committee. Evaluation criteria will include (1) innovative ideas/theories, (2) strength of arguments, and (3) in the case of a panel, unity of the papers vis-à-vis the topic of the panel.