Other Language Educators

The OLE SIG gathers teachers of languages other than English and Japanese. The OLE SIG is multilingual and has a highly multicultural context for discussing strategies specific to each language, exchanging resources, and reporting pedagogical practices of educators teaching languages other than Japanese and English.

In the annual conference, the OLE SIG organizes workshops that so far include ones in German, French and Spanish, and which are held in the native language, with slides or brief explanations in one of the lingua francas, either English or Japanese, to ensure understanding.

The OLE SIG produces a quarterly newsletter and organizes a periodical encounter, the Multilingual Café, a space for sharing ideas and talking about a topic proposed by one or two main presenters. Although the main presentation is in one of the lingua francas, in the second part we divide into groups of languages and continue the discussion of the topic in the chosen language.

The OLE Sig has teachers of German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Thai, Hungarian, Russian, and so forth.