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International Affairs Committee (IAC)

The International Affairs Committee (IAC) of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) supports JALT by establishing, maintaining, and developing international contacts and joint activities between JALT and other partner organizations and groups.

The responsibilities of the IAC fall into six categories:

1. Ensure that Reciprocal Agreements are kept up to date and are satisfactory based on the interests of JALT and our International Partners. International Partners often include national or international language teaching associations. Additionally, JALT is an Affiliate organization of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and an Associate organization of the TESOL International Association.
2. Investigate additional potential partnerships and collaborative opportunities with other groups in the region and globally, including teaching associations and other potential partners. While International Partners have traditionally included national or international language teaching associations, which will continue to be a focus of future partnerships, developing relationships with other non-national association groups could also be mutually beneficial.

3. Organize and help to coordinate JALT representation at International Partner conferences, and liaise with the Board of Directors in organizing International Partner representatives and/or speakers at JALT conferences.

JALT representatives at International Partners conferences:

o Provide a presentation which is relevant to the International Partner conference theme and representative of JALT;
o Meet with key International Partner organization executives / officers;
o Attend relevant meetings and official events;
o Promote JALT activities and publications; and,
o Investigate possible collaborative activities between JALT and the International Partner organization and / or our membership.

Regarding International Partner representatives at JALT conferences, the IAC coordinates with the JALT Conference Program Chair / Organizing Committee in the disseminating of information to International Partner representatives including:

o Schedules for activities related to International Partner representatives;
o Conference venue (including location and access);
o Accommodation (including duration, location, and access);
o Conference fee waivers; and,
o Information / publicity tables (possibly shared).
4. Disseminate relevant information with the goal of encouraging the involvement of the JALT membership at large in international activities by:
o Providing information about international collaborative opportunities to members of the EBM; and,
o Advertising international collaborative opportunities through JALT publicity outlets.
5. Assemble and keep up-to-date information on each International Partner organization, and,
6. Investigate / encourage possible opportunities to collaborate on projects between JALT and our International Partner organizations, such as promoting joint research, co-authorship of papers, hosting conference panels, and/or supporting the Pan-Asian Conference series.

The IAC maintains our current international partnerships with:

JALT is a founding member of the Pan-Asian Consortium (PAC):
For more information on PAC, please visit the PAC website:ย https://pac-teach.org.ย PAC members include JALT and the following:

 

Contact: international@jalt.org

Officers:

  • Committee Chair: Richmond Stroupe
  • Committee Member:
    • George MacLean
    • Shirley Ando
    • Deepti Mishiro

Upcoming Events

News and Announcements

  • JALT Representatives at International Partner Conferences

    As the number of international partnerships increases, the opportunities for an increased number of representatives has also increased. The IAC is actively engaged in extending these representative opportunities to additional […]

JALT Conference 2025 Tokyo

JALT2025 International Conference

2025ๅนด10ๆœˆ31ๆ—ฅ(้‡‘)ใ€œ2025ๅนด11ๆœˆ02ๆ—ฅ(ๆ—ฅ) ๆฑไบฌ้ƒฝๆธ‹่ฐท ๅ›ฝ็ซ‹ใ‚ชใƒชใƒณใƒ”ใƒƒใ‚ฏ่จ˜ๅฟต้’ๅฐ‘ๅนด็ทๅˆใ‚ปใƒณใ‚ฟใƒผ Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 02, 2025 โ€ข National Olympics Youth Memorial Center, Tokyo, Japan