Learning Learning『学習の学習』 23 (1): In This Issue

In This Issue 今号についてThis Spring issue of Learning Learning brings
you a range of stimulating and informative
contributions from our members.
In addition to the latest news updatefrom SIG coordinators, Mathew Porter andMayumi Abe, we have a round-up of reports
from local get-together groups in Tokyo,Kansai, and Hiroshima; we have a selfintroduction from new member Nat Carney;
we have reports by Paul Arenson, Bjorn
Fuisting, who were awarded grants to attend
the JALT International Conference, and byAlison Stewart and Natsumi Magatake, whoreceived an Outreach grant to support a trip toRikuzentakata.
We’re pleased to announce the launchof a new section for Reflective Learning
Articles which features a thought-provoking
article by Lee Arnold on using music in
Japanese university classes to stimulate
creative writing in English.
There are also reflections on theCreating Community: Learning Together 2 Gettogether in Tokyo last December by five of its
participants (three students and twoteachers), and a preview of the LD Forums at
the upcoming PanSIG Conference in Okinawa
later this month and the JALT CALL Conferencein Tokyo in June.
It’s been a while since I edited thisnewsletter and in that time there have been
substantial improvements to the editorial andproduction process thanks to the previouseditors and publications coordinators. Mywarmest thanks go to Rachelle Meilleur for
shadowing my role and doing a lot of editing

and proofreading, to the Members Voices
editor, Andy Barfield, the Grant Awardees
Reports editor, Yoko Sakurai, Michiko Imai forhelp with translation and Japanese
proofreading, Monika Szirmai for layout, andfinally to Mathew Porter for passing on knowhow as the previous editor.
Alison Stewart
Learning Learning Editor
Rachelle Meilleur
Learning Learning Shadow Editor

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LDSIG Publications Available Online
Collaborative Learning in Learner
Development
Published in 2014, and edited by Tim
Ashwell, Masuko Miyahara, Steven Paydon
and Alison Stewart. Twelve chapters offer amultifaceted and critical new look at thewidely held assumption that people learn bestin groups. Available here.
Learner Development Working Papers:
Different Cases, Different Interests
Published in 2014, and edited by Andy
Barfield and Aiko Minematsu. Nine chaptersoffer multiple, and unexpected, criticalperspectives on the learner development
issues that it deals with. Available online hereor in print here.
Autonomy You Ask!
Published in 2003, and edited by Andy
Barfield and Mike Nix. Sixteen chapters ofJapan-based collaborative research explore
learner and teacher autonomy within Japanesecontexts. Available here.
Learning Learning Archives
Issues of Learning Learning going all the way
back to 1994 are now available in PDF formathere.

Learning Learning Team:

メイヤー・ラシェル（「学習の学習」シャドう編集者）

学習者ディベロプメント研究部会 <ld-sig.org/>

Editor: Alison Stewart
Shadow Editor: Rachelle Meilleur
Members’ Voices: Andy Barfield
Grant Awardee Reports: Yoko Sakurai
Translation: Yoko Sakurai, Michiko Imai&Yuri Imamura2