Newsletter	  of	  the	  JALT	  Learner	  Development	  SIG	  	  Overview	  of	  this	  issue	  最新号について本号に投稿されたすべての論文・記事に共通しているテーマはセルフ・リフレクションです 。 19.1 号 は 二 人 の 新 し い SIG 会 員 、 Steven	 
PaydonとBill	 Mboutsiadisの自己紹介に始まり 、 2011 年 度 LD	  SIG 助 成 金 の 三 名 の 受 給 者（ Ian	  Hurrell ・ Mehmet	  Boyno	  ・ Matthew	 
Coomber）が参加した学会を振り返り、二本の論文へと続きます。一本目はMathew	 Porterがオンライン上での発音学習について、二本目
ではLee	 Arnoldの成人学習者がいかに自律学習をすることができるかについて述べています。そして、LD	 SIGが２０１１年度年次大会に基調講演者として招いたフィル・ベンソンのインタビューをお読みください。彼自身が今までの自律学習を巡る旅を振り返り、今後の方向性について語っています。さらには、
Matthew	  Coomber ・ Rachelle ・ Jorgenson	 	 
Tomoko	 Kuritaによる最近のSIGの活動についての報告です。そして今号の締めくくりは古澤弘美の会計報告、Darren	 Elliott・Robert	 
Moreau・Bill	 Mboutsiadisによる各学会におけるLD	 SIG	 フォーラムについてのお知らせがあります。巻末には学習の学習への投稿募集とガイドラインがありますので是非お読みください。	 

Michael	 Mondejar	 &	 Jackie	 Suginaga	 	  Learner	  Development	  SIG	  News	  November	  2011-­‐April	  2012	  学習者ディベロプメント研究部会近況報告	  2011年11月~2012年4月	  Though the start of the new academic
year in Japan takes place in April, the LD
SIG began its new term in November,shortly after our Annual General Meeting(AGM) at the JALT National Conference inTokyo. After five years at the helm, Hugh Nicoll
stepped down at the AGM to focus more on
redeveloping the website and editing
publications. We would like to thank Hugh andall the outgoing officers for all their efforts onbehalf of the SIG these last few years. In our
new roles as co-coordinators, together with all
the other 2012 LD SIG officers, we hope verymuch to build on established successes and tohelp revitalize the SIG in other areas. Several
new faces were among the 20 people whotook part in the SIG’s AGM, where wecontinued the discussions about future plansthat had started over email in the weeks
immediately prior to the conference. We
welcome the further participation of other SIG
members in the committee if you are interested.
Please just let us know if you would like to takepart.
Since November, many changes havestarted taking place. Kay Irie, fresh from coediting Realizing Autonomy, will be taking overfrom Hiromi Furusawa as SIG treasurer thisApril. Hiromi deserves special thanks forhaving been so efficient and organized,
helping the SIG stay financially organised inproviding a wide array of teacher support andconference events. Hiromi’s top-notch work
was noticed and commended by the National
Director of Treasury! Kay has been shadowing
Hiromi for the last year or so, and we hopesomeone will in turn step forward and shadow	  Kay. Again, if you are interested, please let
Kay or us know - thanks in advance for doingso.
Onmembershipmatters,
Rachelle
Jorgenson is continuing as membership chair,and has been joined since November by Matt
Coomber and Jeremy White. As a team, they
have been putting in place new systems forkeeping up to date membership details and forreviewing and renewing the email lists bywhich we contact you. This will, we hope, allow
better communication about SIG matters, aswell as help the SIG acknowledge and include
new and renewing members more quickly than
before. We invite your feedback onmembership matters, and any other aspect ofwhat the SIG is doing, and how it is working foryou.
Following the publication of Realizing
Autonomy, the publications team, led by Alison
Stewart and Masuko Miyahara, together with
Hugh Nicoll and Fumiko Murase, have been
putting forward ideas for the next project(s).
These currently include self-publishing a seriesof books online. Expect to hear more about
this later in the year after the publication of a
special Learning Learning issue with theRealizing Autonomy Proceedings. Here wewould like to thank Alison and Kay, along withMartha Robertson, Steve Paydon and Masuko
Miyahara.
Bill Mboutsiadis took over as Programme
Chair from Richard Silver and has created acollaborative
SIG programmesplanning
Google site which can be found via the LD SIG
website. Many people are helping Bill organize
events this year with Rob Moreau coordinating

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JALT学習者ティヘロフメントSIGの会報	 	  our participation at Nakasendo, Jim Ronaldwith Ellen Head at the Pan-SIG Conference inHiroshima, and Darren Elliot at the CALL SIG
Conference in Kansai. We will have LD SIG
forums at all these events and hope to see youat one or more of them. As well as keeping you
up to date with all of the upcoming LD SIG
events, Bill will also be organizing the Learner
Development SIG’s annual forum at JALT2012
in Hamamatsu - we applaud Bill for everything
he is doing.
At the local level, the LD SIG has beenorganising get-togethers in Hiroshima, Kansaiand Tokyo, with Jim Ronald and Andrew Brady
taking the lead in Hiroshima, Ellen Head, PhilBrown, Steve Brown and Richard Silver inKansai,
andAndy
Barfield,
Rachelle
Jorgenson and Stacey Vye in Tokyo. We arehoping too that get-togethers will soon takeshape in Nagoya, with Darren Elliott leading.
LD SIG get-togethers vary in their specificcharacter from one metropolitan area toanother, but, generally speaking, they are
discussion based, with those attending
exploring their learner development interests
and/or engaging in collaborative practitioner
research. Please join in this year if you areinterested.
Another committee aim since November
has been to revitalize the SIG website. New
content is continually being added to thewebsite about different activities and projects
that the SIG is involved in, as well as
information about SIG grants, memberships
and subscriptions. Non-JALT members can
now take part in the SIG through subscriptions,and information about this and how to join theSIG as a JALT member can be found on thewebsite. The AGM minutes from November
2011 are available there if you missed them,and past issues of Learning Learning are also
fully accessible online. Many thanks to Darren
Elliott, Mike Nix and Hugh Nicoll for all theirwork on the website so far, as well as formaintaining the SIG’s Facebook presence.
Rob Moreau has also been revising the LD
SIG logo, the new version of which you should
start to notice in the coming months. We thankhim for his time and effort on this, too.
Part of the strength of working in teams andhaving many different voices to listen to andacknowledge lies in the breadth and diversityof input that different issues and decisions
receive. This has helped us all develop further
the 2012 LD SIG Grants and Wider
Participation Scheme, with the first awardees
to be announced in April. It is also helping us
shape our collective planning for the next 1218 months following the success of theRealizing Autonomy project. We would like to4	   LEARNING	  LEARNING	  19(1)	  	  thank the members-at-large of the committee
for all their constructive criticisms andsuggestions, in particular Phil Brown, DexterDa Silva, Ellen Head, Kayo Ozawa, MarthaRobertson, Greg Rouault, Keiko Takahashi,and Stacey Vye.
Though the story of SIG over the past six
months has been overwhelmingly positive, it
was with great sadness that in January welearnt of the death of Richard Pemberton, aclose friend of the SIG from its very beginning.
A full tribute to Richard will be published in theRealizing
Autonomy
Proceedings.
Thecommittee is currently developing ideas for afitting and lasting memorial to Richard and hiswork in the learner autonomy field, and wehope to announce more information about thislater this year.
Our final round of thanks goes to Michael
Mondejar and Jackie Suginaga whose
sustained efforts over the past six months
bring to you this fantastic issue of Learning
Learning. We hope that you really enjoy
reading it. As with the newsletter, so too with
the SIG: We welcome your participation
wherever you are teaching, learning or using
languages (and whatever languages too) elementary school, junior high school, seniorhigh school, distance learning, graduate
studies, language school or university. May
this new school year be successful andfulfilling for you in exploring learnerdevelopment in many different ways.
With our very best wishes

Andy Barfield & Richard Silver
On behalf of the Learner Development
SIG committee	 LD	 SIG	 委員会代表	 	 
アンディ・バーフィールド	 	 	 	 	 リッチ・シルバー