LEARNING LEARNING『学習の学習』
Greetings and News Updates 挨拶と近況報告

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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 Tokyo, Kansai and Hiroshima
つながりを求めて：東京 ・ 関西 ・広島

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LD SIG Members' Voices メンバーの声

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Utilization of learners’ cultural backgrounds for the promotion of a positive learning
environment in ELL classrooms, Nakagawa, Hiroshi
LD SIG 2014 Research Grant Awardees 2014 年度 LD SIG 研究助成金受賞者
Rejuvenating the spirit and challenging the mind at JALT 2014, Verla, Adrianne
My Family and Other Conceptions of “Clever”, Kocel-Ross, Caroline
Conference Report (JALT 2014 Conference), Sakurai, Yoko

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Creative Writing
Guidelines for the new creative writing column, Unosawa, Kazuko
Theories of Second Language Requisition, Kocel-Ross, Caroline

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Featured Article フィチャード

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アーテイクルThe Role of Teacher Autonomy in Learner Autonomy, Egitim, Soyhan
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Looking Back 報告
Reflections on Creating Community: Learning Together, Otsuma Women’s University,
December 14, 2014

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Looking Forward 今後のイベント
The stories of our success: Narratives in language development—LD SIG forum at the JALTPan-SIG 2015 conference in Kobe
SIG Matters インフォメーション

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Call For Contributions『学習の学習』原稿募集
Financial Report 財務報告
ISSN 1882-1103
NEWSLETTER / SPRING 2015 / LL 22 (1)Learning Learning 学習の学習 20 (1): Foreword and information

In This Issue 今号について
Welcome to the Spring 2015 issue of Learning
Learning, the Learner Development SIG’s (LDSIG) biannual online newsletter. Springtime inJapan is synonymous with new starts and forteachers this usually means new students,
classes, and possibly even schools. These allbring with them opportunities for personaland professional growth. We hope this issue
reaches you just in time to give you ideas
about encouraging learner development inyour classrooms.

autonomy in his university English classes.

The issue begins with the SIG coordinators,Alison Stewart and Fumiko Murase, borrowing
the conversation style of our website’s Talking
Points column to report on the latest SIG
developments. This is followed by reports
from local get-togethers in Kansai, Hiroshima,and Tokyo.

Many thanks to all the volunteers working
tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure thisissue arrived on time: James Underwood andMonika Szirmai for putting the issue together;
Andy Barfield, Christopher Fitzgerald, Stacey
Vye, and Alison Stewart for various editing
and proofreading help they provided; Kazuko
Unosawa for starting the Creative Writing
Column; Yoko Sakurai for her Japanesetranslations; Mayumi Abe and the rest of thetreasury team for working tirelessly tocompile the SIGs financial report; and HughNicoll for the work of uploading this issue tothe LD SIG website.

In the Members’ Voices section, Hiroshi
Nakagawa shares his experiences trying tofoster learner autonomy through the creationof a positive learning environment to help hisstudents become relaxed and engaged. This isfollowed by three submissions from recipientsof grants in 2014: Adrianne Verla and Yoko
Sakurai, who wrote reflective pieces about
their experiences leading up to and at
JALT2014, and Caroline Ross, who shares withus her grant application to inspire more
people to apply for grants and her reflection
on PanSIG2014.

In Looking Back, teacher and student
participants of Creating Community: Learning
Together, which was held in Tokyo in midDecember, share their experiences at what all
have said was a unique and valuable event.
The Looking Forward section contains apreview of the LDSIG forums at PanSIG2015(this weekend) and JALTCALL2015, coming up
on June 6-7 in Fukuoka.

Thank you on behalf of the Learning Learning
team!
Mathew Porter

This issue sees the start of our new Creative
Writing column, which contains a wonderful
poem to make teachers think about theirstudents.
This month’s Feature Article is by Soyhan
Egitim, who writes about the need forteacher development in order to promotelearner autonomy and shares with us some
activities he has used to encourage learner
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