NPO The Japan Association for Language Teaching

GALE SIG, the Gender Awareness in Language Education Special Interest Group of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), works towards building a supportive community of educators and researchers interested in raising awareness and researching the ways in which gender plays a role in language education and professional interaction. We network and collaborate with other JALT groups and the community at large to promote sound pedagogical and professional practices, language teaching materials, and research that is inclusive of gender and gender-related topics. GALE is its members. Together we talk about gender issues in education through in-person meetings and mailing lists and share our insights through a newsletter and journal as well as links and other articles on our website.

We feel there is tremendous energy, enthusiasm, and interest right now among JALT members regarding various aspects of gender issues in language education and research. We also feel that the GALE SIG helps to introduce and pull many new members into JALT. Much cutting-edge research involves looking at gender as a factor in linguistic interaction, in teaching, in research, and in teacher training. We are pleased to support the efforts of JALT members in furthering such research and its applications to the foreign language classroom.

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Publications: gale.jalt.org/journal/

Website: gale.jalt.org

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