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CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter No. 42 - November 2024 - Read here or download the pdf (Click here for NL42)

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CEFR & LP SIG Newsletter No. 42 – November 2024

Dear members of CEFR & LP SIG,

The season changes, the temperature is mild and the fall term keeps us busy. Looking forward to JALT International Conference, we will keep you updated.

The JALT International Conference from November 15th to 18th, 2024 will be held in Shizuoka (Granship). Please visit the SIG table!
In this issue there will be a preview of CEFR related events at JALT International, because the CEFR LP SIG will have quite some highlights to offer.

We invited Morten Hunke (Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences) as a SIG-sponsored Featured Speaker, with two workshops.

And moreover, the CEFR LP SIG Forum will accommodate three presentations.

The Best of JALT of CEFR LP SIG chosen from 2023 will be awarded at JALT 2024 to our member
Rebecca Schmidt (Miyazaki International University) for her inspiring presentation on CEFR Mediation Activities, CLIL Classes and a Notebook held at JALT 2023 in Tsukuba.

Please look closely at the CEFR and portfolio related presentations at JALT events for picturing next year’s candidate for Best of JALT of CEFR LP SIG.

The Workshop for Kaken Research Proposal in July had a good resonance. Thank you for your interest. We hope that some of the proposals will work out!!!

This issue will give reports on the collaborative Kaken project which started in April 2020, and ended in March 2024 with good news. The project was successfully conducted and laid the base for a solid outcome of case studies. The resulting book proposal was accepted by Springer, and we are looking forward to the international book publication in 2024 involving eleven members of the research team: ten JALT members, nine CEFR LP SIG members and one international collaborator.

The incentive we received from the API (Action-oriented, Plurilingual and Intercultural) Education Forum, an initiative by Enrica Piccardo and Brian North developed further, and they will have monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month. The next meeting will be on November 7th, 2024.

The SIG AGM will be held in fall online, after JALT 2024. SIG Members will receive an individual invitation. We need to amend our SIG constitution. The Auditor and the Board of Directors of JALT are urging each SIG to amend their SIG constitution, especially on the voting procedures.

Take good care as the temperature is changing fast this season.
Hopefully something in this newsletter will draw your attention.
Gabriela Schmidt
SIG President behalf of all officers of CEFR & LP SIG

(Latest update November 5th, 2024)