JALT Awards, Research Grants, and Waiver Scholarships


2023 JALT Awards

Saturday, November 25 Awards Presentation

Immediately following Judy Noguchi’s 14:35-15:35 plenary session

  • The JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Teaching): Ann Mayeda
  • The JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Research): Gregory Paul Glasgow

Sunday, November 26 Awards Presentation

Immediately following Kathleen Kampa’s 15:10-16:10 plenary session

  • JALT Award for Early Career Excellence: Natsuho Mizoguchi and Chhayankdhar Singh Rathore
  • JALT Lifetime Achievement Award: Kathleen Brown

2023 JALT Waiver Scholarships

JALT wants to provide opportunities for JALT members and members of JALT’s institutional partners who would like to present at a JALT International Conference but are unable to due to a lack of financial support. This year we have 6 people whose registration fees were waived.

  • Martin Sedaghat
  • Deepti Mishiro
  • Darcey Barge
  • Nicole Takeuchi
  • Thanh Luan Nguyen
  • Vo Doan Tho

2024 JALT Research Grants

Each year, JALT awards up to three grants for a maximum of 100,000 yen each for research on language teaching in Japan. I am happy to announce the recipients of this year’s grants.

  • Martyn McGettigan, Hiroshima Chapter
  • Miguel Mision, Nagano Chapter
  • Azumi Naruse, Nagoya Chapter

Congratulations to you and good luck with your research projects next year. We look forward to hearing about the results. 

JALT Conference 2025 Tokyo

JALT2025 International Conference

2025年10月31日(金)〜2025年11月02日(日) 東京都渋谷 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 02, 2025 • National Olympics Youth Memorial Center, Tokyo, Japan

PanSIG 2025

PanSIG Conference

PanSIG 2025 will be held May 16-18 in Chiba. PanSIG is an annual conference organized by JALT’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs).