2024 JALT Awards Winners

The JALT Awards and Recognition Committee is proud to announce the winners of the JALT Awards for 2024! The JALT Awards Ceremony took place during the JALT2024 Annual International Conference. Click here to see the photos.

• The JALT Award for Early Career Excellence: Naoya Shibata
• The JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Research): Alex Burke
• The JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Research): Gretchen Clark
• The JALT Lifetime Achievement Award: Marc Helgesen

Please scroll to the bottom of this page to read the nomination letters for each of these award winners.

About the awards:

JALT Award for Early Career Excellence
JALT アーリー・キャリア優秀賞
The Early Career Excellence Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of language teaching by individuals within JALT. This award is bestowed annually upon a JALT member who demonstrates an example of excellence early in their career which has a broad impact on and implications for the language teaching field. Nominees for this award likely have up to ten years of experience or are re-entering the field after an extended period, or are recent graduates of degree programs (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral).

JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Teaching)*
JALT ミッド・キャリア研究者賞（教育部門）
JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award (Research)
JALT ミッド・キャリア研究者賞（リサーチ部門）
The Mid-Career Scholar Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of language teaching or research by individuals within JALT. This award is bestowed annually upon a JALT member who demonstrates an example of excellence in teaching or research midway through their career which has a broad impact on and implications for the language teaching field. Nominees for this award likely have over ten years of experience.

* Note that in 2024, there were two winners of the Mid-Career Scholar Award (Research), and no winners of the Mid-Career Scholar Award (Teaching).

JALT Lifetime Achievement Award
JALT 特別功労賞
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of language teaching by individuals within JALT. This award is bestowed annually upon a JALT member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and/or research throughout their career and has a broad impact on and implications for the language teaching field.