Writers' Peer Support Group (PSG)

Leadership

• Andy Barfield (1999 to 2001)
• Wilma Luth (2001 to 2004)
• Torkil Christensen (2004 to 2010)
• Wilma Luth (2010 to 2012)
• Loran Edwards (2012 to 2017)
• External Coordinator: Dawn Lucovich (2015-2020)
• General and ICT Coordinator: Paul Beaufait (2018-2020)
• Coordinator: Rich Bailey (2021-2022)
• Research Coordinator: Kinsella Valies (2021-present)

Descriptions

Chair (Coordinator): Functions as JALT representative at EBMs, leads and handles first contact with writers, recruits and trains new peer readers.

Writer Coordinator: Coordinates the writer submissions and reader process

*Publicity Coordinator: Advocates for and represents the PSG internally and externally; presents on and promotes the PSG at writing-related conferences

*Event Coordinator: Plans events and assists with managing individual components, including logistics, and resolving any event-related issues.

Research Coordinator: Researches the PSG writers and peer readers; advises on writers who want to conduct and publish writing-related research

Writers’ workshop column editor: collabrates with TLT’s Writers’ Workshop editor, finds authors and functions as editor on columns.

*Call for Coordinators, please indicate your interest here

 

Workflow

 

Meet the PSG-ers!

 

Co-sponsored Abstract Workshops 2023 – 2024

• CUE and PanSIG 2024 November 2023 – January 2024
• CUE and Fukuoka Chapter by Trevor Holster February 2024

Online Professional Development Workshops

• 4 workshops featuring speakers on being an effective author and peer reviewer
  • Link to recordings of the sessions on JALT Youtube Channel
  • Daniel Mills,  Dr. Melodie Cook, Dr. Jeremy White, Chelanna White

Presentations

• JALT 2024: Shizuoka, 15-18 November 2024
  • PSG -REC Forum Panel, Breaking into Research is hard to do
  • Panelists: Cecilia Ikeguchi, Peter Clements, Megan Beggs, Eric Hauser, Anne McLellan Howard
  • MC: Daniel Chesmore
• JALT 2023: Ibaraki, 24-27 November 2023
  • PSG Forum Panel, Peer Support Readers and Authors : Reflections on Feedback.
  • Presenters: Geoff Carr, Cecilia Ikeguchi, Bethany Lacy, KInsella Valies
  • Panelists: Jerry Talandis Jr., Michael Yosef
• PANSIG 2023: Kyoto, 12-14 May 2023
  • PSG Forum : Reading the Readers: Peer Support Readers’ Reflections on Feedback
  • Presenters: Kinsella Valies, Geoff Carr, Bethany Lacy. Volunteer reader: Josh Kidd
• JALT PanSIG 2013: Nagoya, 18-19 May 2013 
  • Conference presentations (Edwards, Muller, & Beaufait, 2013a-b)
    • Becoming a peer-reviewer for the PSG (Muller, 2013)
• Write-ups (Beaufait, Edwards, & Muller, 2014; Edwards, Beaufait, & Muller, 2014)
• JALT 2013: Kobe, 25-28 October 2013:
  • Conference presentation (Edwards, Beaufait, & Muller, 2013)
• JALT PanSIG 2014: Miyazaki, 10-11 May 2014:
  • Conference proposal support (Rolloff-Rothman, 2014, p. 42)
  • Poster presentation (Beaufait, Edwards, Hutchinson, Lucovich, & Moore, 2014) 
  • Writers’ workshop (Edwards, Beaufait, Kramer, & Muller, 2014)
• JALT 2014: Tsukuba, 21-24 November 2014:
  • PSG writing conferences (http://jalt-publications.org/psg, 24 February 2015)
• JALT PanSIG 2015: Kobe, 16-17 May 2015:
  • Conference proposal support 
  • TLT table chats and information displays
• JALT 2015: Shizuoka, 20-23 November 2015:
  • Conference presentation: Resources for academic writing (Edwards & Lucovich, 2015)
  • TLT table chats and information displays
• JALT 2016: 
  • Conference presentation: Tutors’ perceptions of the Writer’s Peer Support Group as an online writing center (Lucovich, Beaufait, & Uehara, 2018)
• JALT 2020: Online, 16-23 November 2020:
  • Conference presentation: Writers’ Peer Support Group (Lucovich & Beaufait, 2020)
• JALT Zoom for Professional Development): Online, 30 September 2021
  • Invited hosts (Lucovich, Bailey, & Valies, 2021)
• JALT 2021: Online, 12-15 November 2021: 
  • Conference presentation

Publications

Beaufait, P., Edwards, L., Hutchinson, B. Lucovich, D., and Moore, C. (2014). “Navigating the initial stages of academic publishing.” Miyazaki Municipal University, Miyazaki, JP. 10 May 2014. Poster presentation. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/7DnmUJ

Beaufait, P., Edwards, L., & Muller, T. (2014). Writing for academic publication: Participation and collaboration. In R. Chartrand, G. Brooks, M. Porter, and M. Grogan (Eds.), The 2013 Pan-SIG Conference Proceedings, pp. 339-346. Retrieved from http://www.pansig.org/2013/2013PanSIGProceedings.pdf

Edwards, L. (2013). JALT Writer’s Peer Support Group. The Language Teacher, 37(4), 73-74. Retrieved from http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/issues/2013-07_37.4

Edwards, L., Beaufait, P., Kramer, B., & Muller, T. (2014). “JALT Writers’ Peer Support Group (PSG) Writers’ Workshop.” Miyazaki Municipal University, Miyazaki, JP. 10-11 May 2014. Invited workshop.Retrieved from  http://pansig.org/2014/presentation-abstracts/psg-2/

Edwards, L., Beaufait, P., & Muller, T. (2013). “Academic publishing for professional development.” JALT International Conference 2013. Kobe Convention Center, Kobe, Japan. 23 October 2013. Concurrent session. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/EdwardsBeaufaitMuller2013

Edwards, L., Beaufait, P., & Muller T. (2014). Navigating the world of academic publishing with the JALT Peer Support Group (PSG). Osaka JALT Journal, 1(March 2014), 200-202. Retrieved from http://www.osakajalt.org/osaka-jalt-journal/

Edwards, L., Muller, T., & Beaufait, P. (2013a). “Becoming a peer reader for the Peer Support Group.” JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2013. Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. 18 May 2013. Concurrent session. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/EdwardsMullerBeaufait2013a-b

Edwards, L., Muller, T., & Beaufait, P. (2013b). “Writing for academic publication: participation and collaboration.” JALT Pan-SIG Conference 2013. Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. 18 May 2013. Plenary session. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/EdwardsMullerBeaufait2013a-b

Goddard, J. (2000). Where Technology and Language Instruction Meet. The Language Teacher, 24(5), 25-28. Retrieved from http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/issues/2000-05_24.5

JALT Publications. (2013). Special Issue: The JALT 2013 Preconference Issue. The Language Teacher, 37(4), i. Retrieved from http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/issues/2013-07_37.4

Luth, W. (2000). Student interlanguage and classroom practice. The Language Teacher, 24(5), 5-7. Retrieved from http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/issues/2000-05_24.5

Roloff-Rothman, J. (2014). TLT Column: SIG News. The Language Teacher, 38(1), 42-48. Retrieved from http://jalt-publications.org/tlt/issues/2014-01_38.1