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Greetings and News Updates 挨拶と近況報告!
In This Issue 今号について!
Learner Development SIG News Update LD SIG 近況報告

Getting Connected: Local Get-together Reports from Kansai, Tokyo and Hiroshima!
つながりを求めて：関西・東京 ・広島

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LD SIG 2013 Research Grant Awardees!
2013 年度 LD SIG 研究助成金受賞者!

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LD SIG 20th Anniversary Conference: Opportunities for Career Development and Teacher Development, Tanja
McCandie!
Report on LDSIG Conference 2013, Michael T. Sullivan!
A student’s perspective on JALT 2013, Aya Matsumoto!
Different perspectives on JALT2013 national conference, Caroline Ross!
Autonomous learning and intercultural communication: discoveries and perspectives, Michi Saki

LD SIG Members' Voices メンバーの声!
Learning and Growing in the Young Learner Classroom, Kathleen Cahill!
Teacher development is an essential part of learner development, Jenny Morgan!
From learner to educator- start a new journey through learner development, Kie Yamamoto!
My English Learning History and Learner Development, Tomoko Imamura!
“Language is the most human”, Maria Gabriela Schmidt!
Immersion Please!, Paul Anthony Marshall!
My journey towards joining the Learner Development SIG, Ben Rowlett!
Viewing low motivation and competence through a learner-development framework, Stephen Paton!
Learning From My Own Children, Emiko Matsui

Special Feature 特集!
The March 2014 Tohoku Outreach Weekend: A Collaborative Report, Andy Barfield, Sayuri
Hasegawa, Rob Moreau, Ted O’Neill, and Mayumi Takizawa
NGO Outreach

Looking Forward 今後のイベント!
LD SIG FORUM at the PANSIG Conference in Miyazaki!
JALTCALL 2014 LD SIG FORUM

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Financial Report 財務報告

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NEWSLETTER / SPRING 2014 / LL 21 (1 )

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Learning Learning『学習の学習』 21 (1): Greetings and NewsUpdates

In This Issue 今号について
Jim Ronald & Monika Szirmai
Welcome to the Spring 2014 issue of Learning

Conference, Caroline Ross and Aya Matsumoto on

Learning 『学習の学習』, the Learner Development

the JALT National Conference. The final essay is a

SIG’s (LD SIG) biannual online newsletter. !

paper by Michi Saki on the various challenges and!

opportunities for autonomous learner

Since the last issue of our newsletter, theLearner Development SIG has come of age – or atdevelopment offered by a class of Japanese andleast had our birthday party, with the truly

international students.!

wonderful Learner Development 20th Anniversary!

Conference. Is the SIG’s coming of age evident in

but we hope that you will find a lot worth looking

this issue of Learning Learning? If maturity isback on through the grant awardees’ reflections. As

measured by the extent to which a newsletter hasfor “Looking Forward”, there is a brief account ofgrown up into something closer to an academic

the LD SIG Forum at the PanSIG conference: welljournal, then the answer from this issue would

worth reading as a window onto the forum even if

probably be no. But, then, the LD SIG is special! At

it is not actually looking forward by the time you

the heart of this issue of Learning Learning there isread it! There is also information about the forum

no academic feature article, but there is a lot ofat the upcoming JALT CALL conference. !

heart to the newsletter! Read on and see what we!

mean…!

teamwork, representing the work of many people,!

The newsletter begins with an update onThere is no actual “Looking Back” section:

Learning Learning is a product ofin addition to the various contributors named

the latest news from the LD SIG from our SIG

above. We would like to thank the coordinators

coordinators, Fumiko Murase and Alison Stewart.

who helped prepare a lot of the content of thisThis is followed by reports from local get-togethers

issue: Andy Barfield for Members’ Voices and thein Kansai, Tokyo and Hiroshima. Next, theTohoku Outreach report, and Christopher

Members’ Voices section introduces us to nine(!)

Fitzgerald for Grant Awardees’ essays. !

new SIG members. Please take time to meet them!

through these pages.!

of Learning Learning for this issue, and our thanks!

go first to Chika Hayashi, stepping in to coordinate

The Special Feature, the heart of this issue,

We tried to increase the Japanese content

is the quietly impressive report of the Tohoku

this so professionally, and to all who willingly

Outreach Weekend, put together by Andy Barfield,

helped with the translation: Akiko Awa, Midori

Sayuri Hasegawa, Rob Moreau, Ted O’Neill, andKanmei, Tadashi Kashiwara, Tomoko Kawachi,Mayumi Takizawa. !

Aiko Minematsu, Kayo Ozawa, Yukari Rutson-!

Griffiths, Yoshiko Tatsuta, and Chika herself. Once

This is followed by essays from therecipients of grants from the LD SIG for 2013. Fouragain, thank you!!

of these were reflections on the conferences they!

attended: Tanja McCandie and Michael Sullivan on

Hiroshima get-together regulars – many thanks to

the Learner Development 20th Anniversary

Robert Taferner, Simon Capper, Naomi Fujishima

Proofreading was largely undertaken by

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and Ariel Sorensen. And also to Alison Stewart for
helping out, too!!
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Our thanks go to James Underwood, ourlead editor, especially for his help in getting us

まずはコーディネーターのFumiko MuraseとAlison StewartがLD SIGの近況を報告します。次に関西、東京、広島の各地域からの報告がありま

started and getting us finished! And finally, as hisす。続いて「メンバーの声」のコーナーでは、なんis the final stage in the whole process, we wouldと９人の新メンバー紹介があります。!

like to thank Hugh Nicoll for the work ofuploading this issue to the LD SIG website: not assimple a task as these few words may imply! !
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We are always looking for new members

to join our team, so if you would be interested inbecoming involved in some way in Learning
Learning, please get in touch with us. Among thejoys of editing has been the opportunity to take

特集記事はAndy Barfield, Sayuri Hasegawa,
Rob Moreau, Ted O’Neil, Mayumi Takizawaによる東北訪問記です。!
それから２０１３年LD SIG助成金受賞者によるレポートです。４人の学会報告はTanja McCardleと Michael SullivanがLD２０周年記念大会です、

time over carefully reading each contribution, andCaroline Ross とAya MatsumotoがJALT全国大会、working together with such a great team of people.

Michael SullivanがLD２０周年記念大会です。そしJoin us!!

!てMichi Sakiが、日本人と外国人学生の混合クラスを通して自立学習が発達していく上での様々な課

Best wishes,!
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題と機会についてレポートします。!
今回は「ふりかえり（内省）」のページはありませんが、助成金受賞者の感想、省察を活用ください。今後に向けては、Pan SIG大会のLD SIGフォーラムについての短いお知らせがあります。
JALT CALL大会の情報もあります。!

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Jim Ronald『学習の学習』は多くの皆さんが参加してくだ&Monika Szirmai!

Co-editors, Spring 2014 issue.!

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さったチームワークの産物です。最新号のコーディ
ネーターはAndy Barfieldが「メンバーの声」と東Learner Development SIGによる『学習の学習』!

２０１４年春号オンライン版へようこそ。

北訪問記、Christopher Fitzgeraldが助成金受賞者の報告です。!

前回号から、Learner Development SIGは２０周

今回号ではChika Hayashiがコーディネーターと年記念大会を開催することができ、めでたく成人なって日本語の内容を増やしました。翻訳協力者

式を迎えました！

今回号には成人らしさが表れているでしょうか？学術雑誌らしくなることを成人の成熟と呼ぶなら、今回号は少し違うかもしれませんがLD SIGは特別です。学術的ではないかもとしてご協力くださったAkiko Awa, MidoriKanmei, Tadashi Kashiwara, Tomoko Kawachi,
Aiko Minematsu, Kayo Ozawa, Yukari RutsonGriffiths, Yoshiko Tatsuta, Chika Hayashiに感謝いしれませんが、情熱あふれる記事が満載です。!

学習者ディベロプメント研究部会 <ld-sig.org/>!2

Learning Learning『学習の学習』 21 (1): Greetings and NewsUpdatesたします。!
文章の校正の大部分を行ってくださった広島地区のメンバー、Robert Taferner, Simon Capper,Naomi Fujishim, Ariel Sorensenに加え、ご協力くださったAlison Stewartにも感謝いたします。チーフ編集者のJames Underwoodにはオンライン版のスタートから終わりまでお世話になりました。
Hugh Nicollは今回の最新号をLD SIGホームページに載せる大役を果たしていただき感謝いたします。!
『学習の学習』では関わっていただける新しいメンバーをいつでも歓迎しています。興味のある方はぜひご連絡ください。それぞれの投稿記事を精読しながら編集したり、素晴らしいチームのメンバーと『学習の学習』を作り上げていくのは大きな喜びです。ぜひ仲間に加わってください。!
それではどうぞお楽しみください。
Would you like to Join the Learning Learning
Publications team?!
Previously, Learning Learning was the result of two coeditors working collaboratively with their shadows
but now we working in a team to co-produce thenewsletter and we are always open to people whowant to join the team.

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If you are interested in any of the following positions
please let me know,!

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James Underwood,!
Learning Learning coordinator,!
jamesmichaelunderwood@gmail.com!

All these positions are open to everyone regardlessof publication or teaching experience, teachingcontext, or nationality. The only stipulations arethat you can agree to hold the position for at least ayear (meaning that you will help with this year's Fallissue 21(2) and next year's Spring issue 22(1) and thatyou can recommend someone to shadow you.!
• Get-Together Report coordinator- liaises withthe get-together organizers (in Hiroshima, Kansaiand Tokyo), to collate a report that reflects the LD
SIG Get-Togethers as a whole. !
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• LD SIG Grant Awardees Essay
coordinator: liaises with the grant awardees, toencourage and help them to publish their research
essays in Learning Learning.!
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• Reviews coordinator: encourages potential
contributors to send in reviews (of books, journal
articles, materials or web resources relating to learnerdevelopment) and works with them to publish theirreviews in Learning Learning.!
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• Looking Back report coordinator: encourages
contributors to report on past events related tolearner development (which can take the form ofconferences, forums, and workshops, both traditionaland online) and works with them to publish theirreports in Learning Learning.

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• Looking Forward report
coordinator: encourages contributors to report on
future events related to learner development(which can take the form of conferences, forums, andworkshops, both traditional and online) and works
with them to publish their reports in Learning
Learning.!
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• Translators: work together with the coordinators
to write a one-paragraph summary of thecontribution. This position is open to everyone
who has sufficient ability in both English andJapanese to perform such a task and is not as aresult limited to Japanese nationals.!

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