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 and joining us at the conference this week. Stop by our booth for a chat and to tell us what you want to hear next on the JALTCALL Podcast.
Enjoy the show!

July 2025 Conference Week Studio Talk w Robert, Geoff & Joe

In this minisode, Luna shares a "Memorable Moment" enjoying social activities at the ELC, discovering a secret skill and experiencing true happiness.

Luna's "Memorable Moment" (S2E3)

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 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 by Glenn Stockwell and Mathias Schulze, Gordon Wilson's AI workshop, and posters by Mehrasa Alizadeh, Yan Deng, and Clare Kaneko. And of course presentations by Naomi Fujishima & Junko Otoshi, Paul Daniels, Takako Aikawa, and more.
Stay tuned for the latest interview coming soon with Gordon Wilson and his AI companion demonstration, and our next live events at JALT International, where we will have a workshop on podcasting, as well as an open CALL forum, both on Saturday, November 1st.
Until then, enjoy the show, everyone. 

August 2025 Studio Talk Conference Favourites with Brian, Geoff, Robert R, and Luc

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 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

We mention Sesame AI's Miles and Maya from the interview with Gordon Wilson earlier this month.  We discuss researching the most commonly used verbs in prompt engineering, focusing on custom commands for LLMs like Gemini and ChatGPT. The discussion highlights that many non-English, LLMs, particularly from China, are non-English models which are also gaining traction, raising questions about data bias and language accessibility. We end the episode with mention of the upcoming JALTCALL Forum and Podcast Workshop at the JALT 2025 International conference in Tokyo, as well as the JALTCALL Symposium in March 2026.
Enjoy the show.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w34255
https://soundcloud.com/jalt-call/gordon-wilson-and-2-ai-conversations-interview-w-brian-g-sept-2025
https://sesame-ai.pro/

September 2025 Studio Talk w Brian, Luc, Geoff, and Robert

Restaurant order 1

Restaurant order 2

1 - Aeroporto + Avião Vocabulary

Recorded set from the show at ESL 9.26.2025 in Washington DC.

ESL 9.26.2025 Live Set

Japan association for Language Teaching (JALT) Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group. (JALTCALL)

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