In this episode James York and Jeanette Dennisson interview JALTCALL Conference 2026 Keynote Speaker Professor Brent Warner from Irvine Valley College, USA., where he teaches ESL and works extensively with faculty on integrating technology into language education. Over the past decade, Brent has become widely recognized for his work in educational technology for language learning, particularly in areas such as: Artificial Intelligence in language education, AI literacy for teachers, Technology-e...
Mar 23, 2026•55 min
In this episode, JALTCALL 2026 Conference Co-Chairs James York and Jeanette Dennisson interview our Sunday keynote speaker, Mehrasa Alizadeh, Associate Professor in the Institute for General Education at Otemon Gakuin University. She holds a PhD from Osaka University, and her work bridges educational technology and language learning, focusing on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and immersive technologies. Mehrasa talks about how she became a language teacher in Japan, her journey to be...
Mar 09, 2026•44 min
In today’s episode, Robert Remmerswaal, Luc Gougeon, and Robert Dykes sit down to reflect on the SUTLF 2026 Conference, what went smoothly, what they learned, and what future conference organizers can take away from this year’s event. We also extend an open invitation for everyone to join us next year for SUTLF 11 in Kumamoto! We then shift gears and chat about what we’re looking forward to at JALTCALL 2026, including a few of our own upcoming presentations and ideas that are taking shape. Final...
Mar 02, 2026•37 min
In this double episode, we introduce the 2026 Conference Chairs, Associate Professor James York and Professor Jeanette Dennisson. We discuss the integration of ludology and ludic approaches in education, particularly in language teaching, and language technology in medical education. We explore the differences between gamification and ludic teaching, emphasizing the importance of play in learning. Jeanette shares her experiences in medical education, focusing on the use of chatbots for enhancing...
Feb 09, 2026•1 hr 18 min
In the rapidly evolving world of online education, having the right tools and support is crucial for both educators and students. In this episode, Geoff Carr and Luc Gougeon sat down with Adam Jenkins and Bill White, two seasoned professionals in the field of eLearning, to discuss their experiences and insights into using the Moodle platform. Their expertise not only sheds light on the current trends but also offers practical advice for educators looking to enhance their online teaching methods....
Jan 26, 2026•1 hr 14 min
Navigating the Educational Landscape: Insights from Professor George McLean on Teaching in Japan In this episode of the JALCALL podcast, host Brian Gallagher sits down with Professor George McLean, esteemed educator at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa. With a rich background in global education and a passion for innovative teaching techniques, George shares his insights into the challenges and triumphs of teaching in a foreign culture. George McLean, originally from Montreal, Quebec, has...
Jan 12, 2026•1 hr 8 min
In this short episode the SOJO University team preview the upcoming SUTLF Conference in February 2026. For more information, listeners can visit https://www.nankyujalt.org/sutlf/sutlf-10-2026 Registration is now open with early-bird pricing closing on February 1st. To register, please visit https://events.jalt.org/event/51/registrations/60/ Today's podcast lineup includes: Robert Remmerswaal: https://researchmap.jp/remmerswaal Alison Koga: https://researchmap.jp/alisonkoga Robert Dykes: https://...
Dec 22, 2025•16 min
🎙️ Ready to wrap up the year? What's been your favorite podcast moment of 2025? 🤔 Join us as we reflect on an incredible year filled with insightful interviews and inspiring stories! 💡 Don't miss out on our 25 episodes packed with knowledge and fun! What have you learned from our podcast this year? Share your thoughts below! ⬇️ What topics do you want us to explore in 2026? #PodcastReflections #EndOfYearReview #LearningJourney #PodcastLife #Inspiration #2025Highlights #JALTCALLPodcast #Engage...
Dec 17, 2025•43 min
In this episode Brian and Geoff interview Edo Forsythe, who for over 20 years was a Navy Russian Instructor and Translator and served as Program Manager for the Military Cryptologic Continuing Education Program (MCCEP) and various duties as a cryptologic analyst, and his research partner Steven MacWhinnie from Hirosaki Gakuin University. We hear about their backgrounds and beginnings as well as their shared research projects over recent years. They go on to explain about the projects they are wo...
Nov 23, 2025•51 min
In this episode we share viewpoints and summaries of JALTCALL SIG members at the JALT International Conference 2025 which was held between 31 October 2025 and November 2nd, 2025 in Tokyo at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya, Tokyo. JALTCALL SIG Members debated the topic of AI versus Human Creativity in Academic Writing in our first-ever forum debate, which went down a treat with the helpful questions from the audience and our panel membe...
Nov 11, 2025•17 min
In this episode Brian Gallagher (Meijo U.) and Robert Remmerswaal (Sojo U.) discuss the JALTCALL events and more that will feature in the upcoming JALT International Conference at National Olympics Memorial Youth Center (国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター), Yoyogi, Tokyo. They explain about the 90-minute JALTCALL Forum on the relevance and application of AI in the classroom, as well as AI ethics and policy, featuring Frederick Bacala, Geoff Carr, Robert Dykes, Bradley Irwin, and perhaps 2 more mystery guests o...
Oct 27, 2025•23 min
In this special holiday-weekend episode, Brian interviews Gary Ross, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kanazawa University, where he is Director of English and develops the online ESL program. Gary is a full-stack developer specializing in AI and online learning. He is the creator of J-Talk.com and the superb conference platform Edzilla, which we continue to use as our JALTCALL conference hosting system. We discuss Gary's various Kaken projects, including (1) Speec...
Oct 11, 2025•1 hr 23 min
In this September studio talk episode of the JALTCALL podcast, "AI, Publications, and Conferences," the team discusses new AI developments and upcoming events as well as announcing the inaugural edition of the JALTCALL Trends journal is now live, with all 30 articles individually linked and openly accessible. The podcast also covers recent AI research in working papers, especially one from the NBER Working Paper Series, How People Use ChatGPT by Chatterji et al. (2025, Sep) Working Paper 34255 W...
Sep 22, 2025•47 min
In this episode Brian Gallagher interviews Gordon Wilson, Associate Professor at HanNan University in Osaka. Gordon is an amazing advocate for Artificial Intelligence research, and he presented a workshop at JALTCALL 2025 conference on exactly this entitled "Building Our Replacements: An AI-Driven, Personalized, Anytime, Anywhere Language Teaching Expert System" He talks about inspiration, inclusion, creation, analysis, interaction, knowledge boards, scarcities, and personalization, as well as d...
Sep 08, 2025•53 min
In this episode the team talk about their highlights and personal favourites from the JALTCALL 2025 Conference held at Tokyo University of Science (Katsushika Campus) from July 18th to 20th. This year we had 15 workshops, 26 poster presentations, 129 regular presentations, 2 forums, and 2 keynote speakers. With 286 participants the conference was a very good success, and we thank everyone for coming and sharing their great ideas with the community. Highlights and favourites included the keynotes...
Aug 26, 2025•49 min
This episode is a collection of short impromptu interviews of participants who attended the JALTCALL 2025 Conference at Tokyo University of Science in July 2025. It includes talks with people during the coffee break at the end of the poster session and continues to the Saturday evening dinner reception, where everyone got a chance to network with new and old acquaintances while enjoying plenty of delicious food and some light beverages. We thank the folk who kindly shared their thoughts with us ...
Aug 11, 2025•23 min
In this conference-week episode, Robert Remmerswaal hosts Geoff Carr and Joe Suzuki-Parker in the monthly "Studio Talk" They discuss the options we have for listening platforms and sources. So, who is listening to what? How about the JALT Listening SIG and their podcast? What are students listening to and what should we recommend? They go on to talk about AI and copyright before some quick reminders about the conference this week. Many thanks to Paul Raine and Eigo.AI for sponsoring this episode...
Jul 16, 2025•43 min
This episode is an interview recorded during the PANSIG conference in May of 2025. In this recording, Robert Dykes of Sojo University interviews Alex Burke as she shares her journey from musician and civil servant to educator and researcher in Japan. Driven by her experience with dyslexia and neurodiversity, she highlights the power of assistive technology, inclusive teaching, and audio-based learning. 2024 JALT Mid-Career Scholar Award winner Burke advocates reducing stigma around neurodiversit...
Jul 07, 2025•49 min
This episode is a conference special edition featuring keynote speaker Mathias Schulze of San Diego State University. In this episode, 2025 conference chair Michael Hofmeyr interviews Matt about his thoughts and ideas on a host of topics related to his keynote speech at the JALTCALL 2025 Conference. Mat is a professor of German (Applied Linguistics) and Comparative International Studies at San Diego State University. By training, he is a teacher of German and Russian. Later, he earned his PhD wi...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 16 min
In this episode we celebrate 6 months of producing our podcast by reviewing the interviewees we have had so far in 2025. We talk about the events that we have held this year and what is coming up. We welcome aboard our latest team member, Joe Suzuki-Parker who briefly explains his background and the AI-powered, student-centred, teacher-first language app that he has developed and is ready to display at the JALTCALL conference next month. Check out https://www.tevo.jp At the conference, Joe will ...
Jun 23, 2025•51 min
This conference edition podcast was recorded at the PanSIG 2025 conference at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan. In this episode, the panel share their responses to questions on "Applying AI in Language Education" from forum moderator Michael Hofmeyr. In the forum, each panelist briefly presented their credentials on AI by mentioning some of their ongoing research and recent publications. We join the panelists in this second part of the forum along with some brief questio...
Jun 16, 2025•31 min
In this episode Eric Hagley, who is the founder of the IVE Project, is interviewed by host Robert Remmerswaal (Sojo U.) Since the first large-scale International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) in 2015, with the help of Japanese government Kaken grants (initially) and more recently the self-funding style they have adopted, the IVEProject has been achieving its goals of bringing the students of the world together in Virtual Exchange. In doing so, students improve their language and intercul...
Jun 09, 2025•47 min
Brian Gallagher interviews Paul Raine of ZenGengo and EigoAI. In this episode they discuss his research and experience over the last 2 decades, including text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, GenAI, and machine translation. As a veteran JALTCALL member since 2011, Paul has contributed in many ways to the EFL community in Japan and beyond. He has developed several web-based language teaching platforms, including Apps4EFL, ABAX LMS, ZenGengo, and now EigoAI, among others. Looking back on t...
May 26, 2025•37 min
In this episode, Geoff Carr, Brian Gallagher, and Luc Gougeon preview CALL SIG presentations that will be happening at the 2025 PANSIG Conference at Kanda University of International Studies in Kaihinmakuhari, Chiba, from May 16th to 18th. We learn what exactly the PanSIG conference is and what is the theme for this year's conference is "Agency and Autonomy in Language Learning." Presentations include talks on AI in Language Education, Learner Autonomy, Digital Tools, Critical Thinking, Academic...
May 12, 2025•34 min
Geoff Carr interviews Chris Fry from the EUROCALL AI SIG, where they discuss his research with speech-to-text technology (STT) and Turboscribe. A veteran teacher in Europe for many years, Chris turned his attention from ER to CALL and spends his time researching technology usage for both students and teachers. Formerly of the British Council Barcelona, EOI Barcelona Drassanes, Bell English School, and La Casa Inglesa, Chris is a graduate of mathematics and moral sciences. An alumnus of Cambridge...
Apr 28, 2025•42 min
This month Geoff Carr and Brian Gallagher talk about "Applied Classroom AI". We explore include some ideas for teachers who are new to the AI scene and want some easy tips to implement AI into their classroom activities and we also suggest some tools that will hopefully make that easy to do for everyone. Geoff explains Judy Wang and John Gayed's Automated Writing Evaluation project and his own "Help Me Improve My Diary Writing Chatty" narrowly-focused chatbot. In section 2 we highlight some curr...
Apr 14, 2025•50 min
David Kluge is interviewed by JALTCALL Podcast host Brian Gallagher. David Kluge was one of the founding members of the group that became the JALTCALL SIG and has taught English for over forty years, 32 of them at the university level. He has co-authored three books, two for National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning and one for Macmillan Learning. His current areas of interest are readers theatre, oral interpretation, speech, presentation, drama, debate, oral communication, composition, coop...
Mar 24, 2025•47 min
Today Geoff Carr hosts Brian Gallagher, Robert Remmerswaal, and Luc Gougeon as they discuss student and teacher fundamental tech skills before the new academic year begins. In this episode, they recommend class management ideas, tips, and technologies. Everything from password management to typing skills, search engines to power cords. And finally, a host of resources that can make everyone's life a lot easier and more convenient.
Mar 10, 2025•50 min
JALTCALL Podcasts host Geoff Carr interviews Dr. Louise Ohashi (Gakushuin University) with Robert Dykes at the JALT Hokkaido Winter Language Conference 2025, "Teaching Tools for the Classroom." Dr. Ohashi specializes in second language acquisition and language education. Her key research areas include learner autonomy, motivation, and CALL/MALL. She is EUROCALL’s AI SIG Chair and conducts research and workshops on AI in language education. She is also a keen language learner. She gave her keynot...
Feb 28, 2025•30 min
JALTCALL Podcasts, StudioTalk, February 2025. Your host for the day is Brian Gallagher from Meijo University, who is talking with Program Co-Chair Robert Remmerswaal about the technology they use in their classes and how they make it work. They include Poodll (a Moodle extension), Google Classroom, and ZenGengo from Paul Raine. We discuss discussion techniques, strategies for assessment, and getting the best out of our students in very different settings in both STEM and foreign language departm...
Feb 14, 2025•43 min
