Learner Development SIG Community Activities 2013
学習者ディベロプメント研究会 活動計画2013
Updated 27 May 2013
Local area get-togethers
地域別集会
Local get-togethers are non-presenter based events where SIG members discuss in pairs and small groups their learning, teaching and researching practices and interests. Currently get-togethers take place in Hiroshima, Kansai and Tokyo.
地域別集会では、発表者は立てずに参加者全員がペアやグループ単位でお互いの研究・教育実践や学びを共有しています。現在は広島、関西、東京の各地域で開かれています。
Hiroshima get-togethers:
In Hiroshima, we are continuing to meet for LD get-togethers just about every month, but are just starting to introduce get-togethers alternating between Friday evenings (end of March, May...) and Saturday afternoons (end of April, June...). The aim is simply to be available to a greater number of people who are interested joining us. We meet at the Ryugakusei Kaikan, a few minutes' from Hiroshima Station.
Bring your learner development hopes, plans, research projects for the new academic year with you. And if you have something good to read related to learner development / autonomy, please bring that along too. Look forward to seeing you! The get-togethers will continue to be managed by Jim Ronald and Andrew Brady, but we are looking forward to expanding the runnning of the get-togethers to three or four people.
If you would like to know more, please get in touch with Jim Ronald (jmronald AT MARK gmail DOT com or 082-222-4445) or just come along to a meeting. You are welcome!
Kansai get-togethers: Next meeting, Saturday 20 July
The next Kansai Get Together will be held at KUIS' 12th Conference on Language Teaching and Learning on July 20th. The conference is hosted by the Research Institute for Communication and the Department of English Education of Kansai University of International Studies (KUIS) in Amagasaki, and co-sponsored by Kobe JALT and Osaka JALT. Check our Facebook page later this spring for more details about Kansai LD participation! http://www.facebook.com/groups/126518854184011/?bookmark_t=group
At our second 2013 'Get Together' in March, we discussed our Learner Development related ideas and plans for the coming school year. It was a great opportunity to get feedback from others on plans already underway, generate ideas for collaborative projects, or discuss details of future classroom research projects. We are working on developing some of these ideas into proposals for the November 20th Anniversary Conference in Tokyo! Looking forward to seeing you there…
For more information, contact Gretchen at gretchen3clark AT MARK gmail DOT com.
- Link to our online Smore flyer: https://www.smore.com/ma90-kansai-get-together
- Link to our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/126518854184011/?bookmark_t=group
Tokyo get-togethers: Next meeting 14 July
The next Greater Tokyo Area get-together will take place on Sunday May 26 at Otsuma Women’s University in Chiyoda-ku. For more information and get-together reports, please see the Tokyo get-together blog.
There are a number of ways of getting to Otsuma Women’s University:
- a 7-minute walk up and down a slope from Hanzomon Station Exit 5 (see map [in Japanese]);
- a 10-minute walk from Ichigaya Station on the JR Chuo, Sobu Lines: (see map [in English]) ;
- an 11-minute walk, albeit uphill, from Kudanshita from Exit 2 (see map [in Japanese]).
Please join us if you can!
We hope that many SIG members will be able to take part in these different local SIG meetings. For more information, contact the local area get-together coordinator(s) nearest to you. For contact details please see the officers page.
- Hiroshima: Andrew Brady and Jim Ronald
- Kansai: Phil Brown, Gretchen Clark, Greg Rouault, and Michael Wilkins
- Tokyo: Andy Barfield, Ken Ikeda, and Stacey Vye
Background to the local area get-togethers
In the 1990s when the Learner Development SIG started out, we tried to do things a little differently by holding small meetings, without a presenter, where people could talk with each other directly about their interests. Since JALT2006, members of the Learner Development SIG across Japan have been re-connecting with this original combination of learner and teacher development. Different local groups have been getting together to talk about learner and teacher development issues of central concern to those taking part.
Reflections from previous local area get-togethers
- 13 September 2009 Greater Tokyo Get-Together Reflections -- Particpants' reflections on "Using Narratives in Second Language Research"
- 14 September 2008 Greater Tokyo Get-Together Reflections -- Particpants' reflections from the September 2008 gathering, scaffolding, part two.
- 13 July 2008 Greater Tokyo Get-Together Reflections -- Particpants' reflections from the summer 2008 gathering focused on scaffolding.
- 13 January 2008 Greater Tokyo Get-Together Reflections -- Partipants' reflections on this year's first Tokyo get-together.
- Third Tokyo Local Gathering Report -- This story from the 13 May (2007) local get-together in Tokyo includes reflections from participants.
- Second Tokyo Local Gathering Report -- This story from the second local get-together in Tokyo includes reflections from participants.