2025 Interviews

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, cooperative learning, and materials writing.
In the interview, we discuss learning opportunities with technology over the years from early word-processing computer labs and early phone technologies. With a focus on creativity in academia, David explains how he created and curated courses with several elements that required student personalization and input. From cliffhangers to digital scrapbooks, from roleplays to divergent models, the ideas and answers flow from this very talented teacher.

David Kluge Interview by Brian Gallagher March 2025

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, he briefly held his own podcast and currently posts ideas on LinkedIn and on his blog. Chris’ Profile linkedin.com/in/chris-fry-5945b7240

Chris Fry of EUROCALL interview w Geoff Carr

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 the last decade of CALL-related reports and applications, they discuss the technologies that go end-of-life very quickly and those that last the test of time. The problems of link rot and technology aging prompt companies to develop more robust systems and pave the way to better evolution of technology that optimizes the user experience. EigoAI will be the main sponsor at this year's JALTCALL Conference, where you will be able to meet and talk with Paul in person. We hope you take this great chance. This interview was recorded online in April 2025, prior to the PANSIG conference, with a few extra questions from Geoff Carr. Check out Paul Raine's work at https://zengengo.com, https://eigo.ai/ and paulsensei.com. We hope you enjoy the show.

Paul Raine Interview w Brian G May 2025

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 intercultural understanding. Now with over 10,000 participants, this huge project has benefited groups of students tremendously around the globe.
Recorded in May of 2025.
For more information check out their homepage https://iveproject.org/

Eric Hagley interview by Robert Remmerswaal for JALTCALL Podcasts

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 neurodiversity and designing classrooms that support all learners naturally.

Enjoy the show.

Alex Burke interview by Robert Dykes at PANSIG 2025

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 and especially the kind words about our podcast platform. Enjoy the show.

2025 JALTCALL Conference participant interviews

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 development and digital companions.
His outlook on AI is incredibly positive and in stark contrast to more cautionary and conservative speakers we may have heard in recent times. His positivity is something that we all need a good dose of to counter the worry that many people have about AI, and he explains well the opportunities that we can have if we can be open to more ideas. In this recording he demonstrates how to harness the benefits of AI as a companion to our lives as an assistive technology with a live walkthrough of interactions with an artificial intelligence that he has been developing through oral conversation. A first for our podcast.
Enjoy the show.

Gordon Wilson and 2 AI Conversations, interview w Brian G Sept 2025

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) Speech recognition in medical communication and training using ML with Jeanette Dennison, and (2) the Extensive Reading Artificial Intelligence app in collaboration with Mark Breirley https://gamma.erai.app/dashboard/manuscripts 
Check out Gary's J-Talk website for academics working in Japan(ese). https://j-talk.com/convert
and contact us at the podcast using jaltcall@jaltcall.org 
Contact Gary Ross at gary@p.kanazawa-u.ac.jp Kaken Researcher Number 10708142

Gary Ross Interview by Brian Gallagher Oct 2025

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2025 Interviews

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