JALTCALL 2026

JALTCALL 2026 – Kobe (Nishinomiya) "Prevail or Fail?"

Friday, June 12 - Sunday, June 14, 2026

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Conference Details

❗Important Dates

1 November 2025 Call for proposals open

31 January 2026 Submission deadline 

1 March 2026 Results notification + Early bird registration STARTS

31 April 2026 Early bird & Presenter Registration Deadline ENDS

12 - 14 June 2026 Conference Begins

All presenters must register for the conference during the early bird period (MARCH 1 - APRIL 31).

🪪 Registration Fees

JALT member

  • early bird: ¥15,000 / regular: ¥18,000

Non-JALT member

  • early bird: ¥17,000 / regular: ¥20,000

Student (not in full-time employment)

  • early bird: ¥7,000 / regular: ¥9,000

While onsite registration is possible, we will be accepting cashless payment only.

🏫 Venue information

Konan University, Hirao School of Management "CUBE" (Nishinomiya Campus) is between Osaka and Kobe in Nishinomiya, Japan. The closest station, Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Station (HK08) on the Hankyu Kobe Line, is approximately 5 minutes on foot.

🏨 Accomodation Options

More information coming soon

Note: Accommodation near the venue in Nishinomiya is limited. We recommend staying near Osaka or Kobe Station for easy Hankyu Kobe Line access and a wider range of hotels.

Conference Theme

Submissions are now closed. Reviews should be completed by March 1, 2026. If you have any questions or concerns about your submission, please use the contact form from the menu above. We look forward to seeing everyone in Nishinomiya in June!

Under the theme “Prevail or Fail?”, JALTCALL 2026 invites educators, researchers, and technologists to explore how digital tools, pedagogical innovations, and AI are reshaping language teaching and learning in an age of rapid change and uncertainty. We welcome presentations that critically examine both successes and setbacks in technology-enhanced language education—projects that worked, those that didn’t, and lessons learned in between. Topics may include experimental classroom applications, data-driven research, AI and VR integration, assessment and feedback innovations, teacher training, learner autonomy, or institutional implementation. Whether your project prevailed, failed, or continues to evolve, we encourage honest reflection, rigorous analysis, and forward-looking discussion on what “success” really means in the CALL field today.

THEMATIC STREAMS

  1. 🤖 Machine Learning in CALL (ML)

  2. 🎮 Digital game-based language learning and teaching (DGBLLT)

  3. 👩‍🏫 Classroom application of CALL

  4. ⚖️ Ethics and Policy in CALL practice 

  5. 🌐 Extended reality (XR) in CALL (including virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR))

  6. 🔥 Learner motivation and CALL

  7. 📚 Second language acquisition (SLA) theory and CALL

  8. 🌍 Virtual exchange & COIL

  9. 📱 Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)

  10. ✅ Technology-mediated feedback

  11. 🦆 Social Media

  12. 💻Software development 

  13. ❄️General CALL

Keynote Speakers

Saturday and Sunday Keynote Speakers

  • Mehrasa Alizadeh

    Mehrasa Alizadeh

    Associate Professor

    In this keynote, Mehrasa reflects on her past work with immersive technologies in language education, examining not only what prevailed, but also what failed, and how she attempted to address these challenges. By critically engaging with initiatives that did not unfold as planned, she will highlight key pedagogical and practical lessons drawn from these experiences. She will also demonstrate how these insights have directly informed the design and direction of her current project, offering a reflective account of how learning from failure can ultimately help innovation prevail in technology-enhanced language learning.

  • Brent Warner

    Brent Warner

    Professor

    Brent Warner is an award-winning professor at Irvine Valley College in southern California, where he focuses on integrating technology into the language learning process. He works with teachers and organizations across the globe to provide practical advice for helping English Language Learners take advantage of tech to help them communicate more clearly. For TESOL International, he blogs about technology integration in the ESOL classroom; he is also the co-host of The DIESOL Podcast, which addresses innovation in ESOL, as well as The HigherEdTech Podcast, covering tech for teachers in college and university settings.

Conference Fee Waivers

We especially encourage proposals from teachers of young learners and teachers without research budgets. A limited number of partial and full conference fee waivers will be made available for applicants in these groups. When submitting your proposal, please note your eligibility in the “Notes” field at the bottom of the submission form.

*Inclusion in one of these groups does not guarantee a waiver, but we will do our best to accommodate as many teachers as possible.

Notes on Co-presenters

All presenters (including co-presenters) must register by the early bird deadline. Presenters who have not registered by this deadline will risk having their presentations removed from the schedule.

When submitting a group presentation proposal, you do not need to list co-presenters at the submission stage. If your proposal is accepted, you can officially register co-presenters later. To do this, simply go to your presentation and click on "Invite Co-Presenter". From here you will see a shareable link to send to your co-presenters. The URL lasts for 72 hours.