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ATJ Seminar 2005

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The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) 2005 Seminar will take place at Hyatt, Chicago, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, on Thursday, March 31, 2005. The Seminar will feature a full day of concurrent sessions with presentations by ATJ members on linguistics, literature, pedagogy and second-language acquisition.The keynote speaker will be Professor Takie Lebra of the University Hawaii, who will speak on "A Japanese Scheme for Talking and Thinking: From Social to Cosmological"

Sessions will be held concurrently beginning at 9:45 a.m. in the Columbus A-B, Columbus C-D, Columbus I-J, Grand Ballroom F, and Acapulco rooms at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. The hotel's web site (http://chicagoregency.hyatt.com/property/index.jhtml) has maps which can be used to locate the meeting rooms.

After the close of the Seminar, we are pleased to announce a reception for all Seminar attendees and ATJ members, sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago and a group of publishers from Japan. The reception will be held from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at the Consulate's Japan Information Center, located in the Olympic Centre at 737 Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, about a 15-minute walk or a short taxi ride from the Hyatt Regency. Refreshments will be served (sushi, sake, and more!). A map and directions to JIC can be found online at http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jic.HTML

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

Information on the Association for Asian Studies Conference, which is held at the same venue beginning the evening of March 31, can be found at http://www.aasianst.org. Information on making reservations at the Hyatt Regency Chicago at a special AAS conference rate is online at http://chicagoregency.hyatt.com/groupbooking/caas.

The full schedule for the 2005 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 2005 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 2005 proposals:

The Association of Teachers of Japanese calls for papers/panels in the areas of Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Literature, Japanese Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition in Japanese. 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.

Sessions will be held concurrently beginning at 9:45 a.m. Admission is free for members of ATJ and our sister organization, the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT). There will be a registration fee of $35 for non-members.

Submission of abstracts is accepted at (www.japaneseteaching.org/ATJseminar/2005/). If you do not have access to the Internet, please contact the Seminar Committee Chair:

Yasuko Ito Watt
East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
Indiana University
Goodbody Hall 223
1011 East 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

E-mail: ywatt@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-3124 (direct)
Fax: (812) 855-6402 (department)

Deadline: October 31, 2004.

In addition, please pay attention to the following in submitting your abstract:

1. We welcome paper and panel submissions from anyone, but we require that presenters at the Seminar be members of ATJ. If your paper is accepted for presentation and you are not a current ATJ member, please download a membership form from the ATJ web site and submit it to the ATJ office with membership payment by the end of January 2005.
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. Because Chicago is a strong union city, we may not be able to accommodate individual request to bring your own equipment. We apologize the inconvenience this may cause.

All Individual and Panel papers will be sent to referees for review and the final selection will be made by the planning committee. Evaluation criteria will include (1) innovative ideas/theories, (2) strength of arguments, (3) pedagogical implications, and (4) in the case of a panel, unity of the papers vis-ˆ-vis the topic of the panel.

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 March 31, 2005. Those whose papers are selected for presentation at the Seminar are strongly encouraged to register for the AAS conference in conjunction with which the ATJ Seminar is held.

The full schedule for the 2005 ATJ Seminar, including times and room assignments, will be announced in January.

• Individual Paper submission form
• Panel submission form

If you have any questions, please email to Yasuko Ito Watt at ywatt@indiana.edu
For technical support please contact webmaster@japaneseteaching.org

Seminar Committee:

Hiroko Furuyama
Phyllis Larson
Junko Mori
Keiko Schneider
Yasuko Ito Watt