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JALT currently has more than 30 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) available for members to join. This column focuses on one particular SIG each issue, giving an overview of the activities and mission of each SIG. For more information on JALT SIGs in general: http://jalt.org/main/groups.

2024

  • Global Englishes SIG

2023

  • Art, Research, and Teaching SIG
  • Accessibility in Language Learning SIG
  • The Testing and Evaluation SIG

2022

  • SIG Focus Handover Issue
  • Mixed, Augmented, and Virtual Realities (MAVR) in Learning SIG
  • Listening SIG
  • Meet the JALT Writers’ Peer Support Group

2021

  • The Extensive Reading SIG
  • The Business Communication SIG
  • The Performance in Education SIG
  • Collaboration and the Teacher Development SIG
  • A Chapter and SIG Collaboration: Creative Writing in Language Teaching Contexts
  • Introducing Our New SIG Liaison Representative, Benefits of Being a Member of the LD-SIG

2020

  • Finding Your Place, and Your People / The Bilingual SIG: It’s So Much More Than Language / Benefits of Being a Member of the LD-SIG
  • Reflections: SIG Officers
  • Reader Reflections: Being Part of a SIG
  • JALT Special Interest Groups: An Overview
  • Introduction of the Other Language Educators (OLE) SIG
  • The Materials Writers SIG

2019

  • Pragmatics SIG
  • Learner Development SIG
  • Teacher Development SIG
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning SIG

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