Learner Development SIG Publications 2013

One of the aims of the Publications Team is to provide a support service to the SIG membership with regard to publications. This involves helping facilitate discussion and development of new research, for example, in get-togethers, conference forums, workshops, panels, symposia etc.. Helping new writers to develop their writing for publication in Learning Learning and other SIG publications, supporting initiatives aimed at publishing research and thinking about learner development are also a large responsibility of the Publications Team. The following is the list of publications forthcoming this year:

Planned Publications:

• April 2013: Learning Learning Vol. 20, No.1
• September-October 2013: Learning Learning Vol. 20 ,No.2
• Autumn 2013: Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests.

There are a further two potential publication projects that are currently being discussed. These include an anthology of practitioner research on collaborative learning and another on assessment. Please contact Masuko Miyahara, masukom.m58 AT MARK gmail DOT com, or Steve Paydon, paydo99 AT MARK yahoo DOT com, for more details.

Learner Development Working Papers Project:

Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests
(Editors: Andy Barfield and Aiko Minematsu)

The starting point for this project was the Learner Development SIG Forum at JALT2012 where those taking part took a critical look at different cases of learner development. This writing project aims to break out of institutional boxes by attempting to make connections with perspectives and positions from a wide variety of disciplinary areas within education, other professional worlds, and/or in wider society. The final publication will consist of 12 chapters, with each chapter including a peer reader response and an interdisciplinary response. The peer reader responder will have interests close to the author’s (s’) work and will share views on a specific chapter’s focus from a second language education perspective. The interdisciplinary reader responder will be someone working outside the field of language education who can bring interesting and critical perspective to the main issues raised in the working paper. Overall, the intention is for each chapter to offer multiple critical perspectives on the learner development issues that it deals with. As of December 2012, the main authors of each chapter are:

1. Autonomy They Ask: What is it and how does the learners’ English improve? (Stacey Vye)
2. Co-constructing Academic Literacy (Hugh Nicoll)
3. Co-constructive Storying of Learner Autonomy (Chika Hayashi)
4. Collaborative and Reflective Advising for Teacher and Learner Autonomy in a Japanese Junior High School EFL Education Context (Hideo Kojima)
5. Getting Together on Learner Development: Participant-centred Teacher Learning (Andy Barfield)
6. Learner Autonomy Development Class within a CALL-rich Learning Environment (Martin Mullen, Christopher Fitzgerald, Paul Crook)
7. Learner Development through Self-evaluation and Reflection with High School Students (Aiko Minematsu)
8. Research Circles: Exploring autonomous learning in collaborative groups (Alison Stewart)
9. Respecting the Use of the L1 in the Language Learning Classroom: A case for code-switching in ELL contexts (Peter Cassidy)
10. Special Needs in the Mainstream University EFL Classroom (Helen Hanae)
11. Teaching Everyone to Fish Was Never Going to Be That Simple: Challenges in incorporating learning strategies for oral proficiency into the curriculum (Nathan Ducker)
12. The Role and Benefits of Implementing Student Assistants in a Learner Autonomy Development Class within a CALL-rich Learning Environment (Bill Mboutsiadis & Masashi Nakamura)

The planned publication date for Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests　is Autumn 2013. Please contact Andy Barfield (barfield.andy AT MARK gmail.com) and/or Aiko Minematsu (aikoominematsu AT MARK gmail.com) for more details.

SIG Book Projects to Date

• 2012: Special Issue of Learning Learning 19(2). Proceedings from the Realizing Autonomy Conference.
• 2011: Realizing Autonomy (Palgrave-Macmillan). Order from englishbooks.jp
• Download extra resources that accompany several chapters from the book from the Palgrave-Macmillan site.
• 2006: More Autonomy You Ask!
• 2003: Autonomy You Ask!

We are pleased to announce that the full text pdf version of AYA is now available for downloading; individual chapters too! As soon as we have completed contacting all the authors and received digital republication permissions, MAYA will also be available.

学習者ディベロプメント研究部会の出版チームの主な活動はメンバーの皆様の 研究を出版に向けてお手伝いすることです。これは例えば、JALT　LDフォーラムや各地域での研究部会の集まりが発端となってまとめた成果を出版するサポートをします。又、「学習の学習」に掲載する論文や記事をまとめるお手伝いも出版チームの大きな役割です。今年、出版が予定されているものは下記の通りです。

出版計画

• 2013年4月：「学習の学習」　２０（１）
• 2013年9-10月：「学習の学習」　２０（２）
• 2013年秋：Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests

学習者ディベロプメント研究部会では２０１３年度は「学習の学習」を２回出版する予定です。その他、当研究部会が推し進めているプロジェクトとしては出版チームによる協同/協働学習(collaborative learning) 及び、アセスメント(assessment)をテーマにした出版物を検討中です。詳細は宮原万寿子, masukom.m58 AT MARK gmail.com、又はステイーブ　ペイドン, paydo99 AT MARK yahoo.com, までご連絡ください。

学習者ディベロプメント　論文集プロジェクトについて

（編集者：アンディ・バーフィールド、峰松愛子）
この論文集は2012年に開催されたJALT 学習者ディベロプメント研究部会フォーラムにて発表された事例を中心に「Learner Development: Different Cases, Different Interests」と題してまとめたものです。ここでは学習者ディベロプメントの動向を様々な角度からクリティカルに検証していくことで、従来の学術的な枠を越え、ときには教育以外の関連分野の専門家や研究者の独自の見解を取り入れ、特定の研究分野に縛られることなく、より幅広い学際的な視点をもつことを目的としています。この論文集は全12章で構成されます。各章には執筆者の論文と共に執筆者が依頼したピアーレビューヤ(peer reviewer)　2名による省察があります。2名のうち、1名は執筆者と同じ研究分野、いわゆる、第二言語教育の視点からコメントします。他の1名は言語教育分野以外の専門家で、それぞれの観点から論文の主旨に対して意見を述べます。このようにインターアクティブな構成にすることで、各論文がより多角的な視点で論じられ、幅広い視野で研究を見据えることを目的としています。　2012年12月現在、各章の執筆者は次の通りです。

1. Autonomy They Ask: What is it and how does the learners’ English improve? (Stacey Vye)
2. Co-constructing Academic Literacy (Hugh Nicoll)
3. Co-constructive Storying of Learner Autonomy (Chika Hayashi)
4. Collaborative and Reflective Advising for Teacher and Learner Autonomy in a Japanese Junior High School EFL Education Context (Hideo Kojima)
5. Getting Together on Learner Development: Participant-centred Teacher Learning (Andy Barfield)
6. Learner Autonomy Development Class within a CALL-rich Learning Environment (Martin Mullen, Christopher Fitzgerald, Paul Crook)
7. Learner Development through Self-evaluation and Reflection with High School Students (Aiko Minematsu)
8. Research Circles: Exploring autonomous learning in collaborative groups (Alison Stewart)
9. Respecting the Use of the L1 in the Language Learning Classroom: A case for code-switching in ELL contexts (Peter Cassidy)
10. Special Needs in the Mainstream University EFL Classroom (Helen Hanae)
11. Teaching Everyone to Fish Was Never Going to Be That Simple: Challenges in incorporating learning strategies for oral proficiency into the curriculum (Nathan Ducker)
12. The Role and Benefits of Implementing Student Assistants in a Learner Autonomy Development Class within a CALL-rich Learning Environment (Bill Mboutsiadis & Masashi Nakamura)

この論文集は2013年秋に出版予定です。詳細を希望される方はアンディ・バーフィールド(barfield.andy AT MARK gmail.com>、又は峰松愛子までご連絡下さい。

学習者ディベロップメント研究部会出版書籍

• 2012: Special Issue of Learning Learning 19(2). Proceedings from Realizing Autonomy Conference.
• 2011: Realizing Autonomy (Palgrave-Macmillan). こちらのリンクから注文できます englishbooks.jp 尚、付録はこちらからダウンロード可能です extra resources
• 2006: More Autonomy You Ask!
• 2003: Autonomy You Ask!

AYAとMAYAは近日中にPDF形式でダウンロード可能となる予定です。AYAは現在絶版になっておりますが、各々の著者の了解を得た後、入手可能になります。尚、各章別に入手もできるように手配を進めております。MAYAも同様に近日中にPDF形式で皆様にお届けできる予定になっております。