Date: 3rd (Fri) and 4th (Sat) September, 2010
Venue: University of Reading

- Provisional Conference Programme (English / Japanese)
- Registration Form
  Please note that registration will close once all of the places have been filled.

★ From the Organiser ★
The 13th BATJ Annual Conference will be held on Friday 3^rd and Saturday 4^th September at the University of Reading. We are going to have Professor Ryuko Kubota of the University of British Columbia, who will give a keynote speech on ‘Critical teaching of Japanese language and culture: From theory to practice’ and Dr Alan Tonkyn of University of Reading, who will give an invited speech entitled ‘Form-focused Teaching and the Communicative Language Teacher: Can the Explicit aid the Implicit?’. There will also be presentations of research papers, practical reports and poster presentations and workshops.

I’m sure that we will have productive two days with a variety of interesting presentations and workshops and hope to see as many of you as possible at the conference.

- Access to the conference site
- Staying in a University Hall of residence on the night before the conference

The first day of the conference is scheduled to start at 1.00 pm and a provisional programme will be available at the end of June.

I look forward to seeing you all in Reading. 

(Akiko Furukawa, Conference organiser)

Access to the conference site

Reading is located about half an hour on a train to the west of London. Access to Reading is generally easy. If you are flying into Heathrow, there is a direct coach service to Reading Rail Station. There are also trains from Gatwick Airport and to the north, east, south and west of England, Wales and Scotland. The conference will take place in the Whiteknights Campus of the University, which can be accessed from the Rail Station by bus in 10-15 minutes. The accommodation (The Crescent) is also on campus. More information on access to the conference site will be made available soon.

Staying in a University hall of residence on the night before the conference

If you wish to stay in one of the University halls of residence on the night before the conference, please contact me by e-mail ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) no later than 30 July. Bookings can only be made if there are available rooms. If you wish to stay in a local hotel or a guest house, or stay in Reading after the conference, please see the following University web site for a list of local accommodation.

Local hotels and guest houses in Reading 

Date: 28th (Fri) and 29th (Sat) August 2009
Venue: University of Sheffield

- The Conference Programme