Creating Community: Learning Together 9 (CCLT9) is a space for students and teachers to share ideas, present, and discuss in a supportive, low-stress environment, offering a tremendous sense of achievement and enjoyment for all those taking part in CCLT!  (See snapshots from last year’s CCLT8 to get a feel for the event.)

It is a valuable chance for students to showcase their research, communication, and presentation skills in English – and learn together with others. This is also a golden opportunity for students who want to highlight their English abilities on entry sheets or graduate school applications, or to gain more confidence to apply for a working holiday visa.

CCLT9 will include concurrent poster presentations of 45 minutes or so. Students may present alone, in pairs, or small groups. Teachers are, of course, invited to showcase what they are doing in their practice or research related to learner development, presenting solo or with a student to offer multiple perspectives. Areas of focus include:

• inclusive classroom practices that support diverse learners
• creative ways to foster change, new understandings, and well-being
• student-led projects that connect classroom learning to real-world issues
• reflections on autonomy, voice, and identity in learning and learner development
• challenges in fostering learner agency and/or equitable access & participation.

Students, teachers, learning advisors, and student-teacher teams are all invited, as are proposals from a variety of learning contexts (classroom, online, blended, university, self-access, high school, language school, company classes, and so on). 

We warmly invite you and your students (and individual teachers) to start planning for CCLT9 and to sharepractices, stories, and challenges related to learner development for an inclusive and connected world. You don’t need to have “perfect results” or academic polish. If you have a story, question, or puzzle related to learner development, we hope you’ll join us.

Information needed to submit your poster presentation proposal:

• Presenter information: Name, affiliation (academic institution or workplace), and email address of primary contact
• Title: No more than 75 characters (40 characters for Japanese)
• Format: Face-to-face poster presentation
• Poster presentation summary:
  • For students: 75 words or 150 Japanese characters
  • For teachers 150-250 words or 300-500 Japanese characters
• NOTE: Please indicate any special requests you have for your poster presentation.