Here is a list of previous LD SIG Grant recipients, with links to the issues of Learning Learning to which they contributed a grant awardee essay.
2023
- PanSIG Conference Grant – Chiyuki Yanase (Issue 30.2)
Empowering language learners: Integrating learner well-being into classrooms - PanSIG Conference Grant – Annie Minami (Issue 30.2)
PanSIG 2023: Discovering community, reaffirming teacher values
2022
- PanSIG Conference Grant – Lorna Sachie Asami (Issue 29.2, pp. 25-28): The critical role of the teacher in the self-directed learning class
- PanSIG Conference Grant – James Michael Underwood (Issue 30.1, pp. 18-20): Reflecting on PanSIG 2022
- International JALT Conference Grant – Emily Choong (Issue 30.1, pp. 15-17): Reflections of JALT 2022: The Case of a Deer in a Village
2021
- Research Grant – Aya Hayasaki (Issue 30.2, pp. 43-47): Life and Research Trajectories as a Lens for Understanding Learner Development
2020
JALT International Conference Grant – Feroze, Malik Amir (Issue 28.1) Professional development through the pinhole of learner development
2019
- JALT International Conference Grant – Dominic Edsall (Issue 27.1) A Reflection on Self-efficacy, Learner Agency, Teaching Repertoires, and Pedagogical Choices
- JALT International Conference Grant – Masayo Kanno (Issue 27.1) How can teachers support learner agency?
- JALT International Conference Grant – Jackson Lee (Issue 27.1) Learning about Success, Achievability and Positivity and JALT 2019
- Research Grant – Anubhuti Chauhan (Issue 27.2) Exploring Learners’ Abilities to Improve Their Language Learning
- Project Grant – Michael Kuziw (Issue 27.1) – Enhancing the affect towards EFL in elementary schools through a storytelling project: Literacy and learner development; (Issue 27.2) Enhancing the affect towards EFL in elementary schools through a storytelling project: Literacy and learner development (Part II)
2018
- JALT CALL Conference Grant – Gretchen Clark (Issue 26.1) “Building learner resilience in the classroom: A conversation with Judith O’Loughlin, plenary speaker at JALT2018”
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/clark.pdf - Miki Iwamoto (JALT International Conference Grant) (Issue 26.2) “What I learned from attending my first conference”
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/iwamoto.pdf - Greg Lambert (JALT International Conference Grant) (Issue 27.1) Using Comic Life and iMovie for a Cultural Exchange Project
- Gretchen Clark (with Sean Gay) and Greg Lambert both gave poster presentations at the JALT2018 and their posters were both winners in the JALT2018 Poster Design Competition. You can see their winning poster designs here:
https://jalt.org/main/news/jalt2018-poster-design-competition-winners
2017
- PanSIG Conference Grant – Farrah Hasnain (Issue 24.3)
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Hasnain.pdf - JALT CALL Conference Grant – Daniel Hougham (Issue 24.3)
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Hougham.pdf - Research Grant – Arnold Arao (Issue 25.2)
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Arao.pdf - International Conference Grant – Imogen Custance (Issue 25.1)
https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GrantAwardees.pdf - Project Grant – No recipient
2016
PanSIG Conference Grant – No recipient
JALT CALL Conference Grant – Sean Toland (Issue 23.3) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/23.3_Sean.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Daniel Hougham (Issue 24.1)https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Hougham.pdf)
Research Grant – Yoko Sakurai
Project Grant – Nathaniel Carney (Issue 24.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Carney.pdf)
2015
PanSIG Conference Grant – Nicole Gallagher (Issue 22.3) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Research-grants.pdf)
JALT CALL Conference Grant – Michael Sullivan (Issue 22.3) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Research-grants.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Paul Arenson (Issue 23.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/23.1GrantReports.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Bjorn Fuisting (Issue 23.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/23.1GrantReports.pdf)
Research Grant – Hiromi Tsuda
Outreach Grant – Greg Rouault (Issue 24.3) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PanSIG2016Forum.pdf)
(Note that Greg wrote about the project he conducted with the support of the Outreach Grant in the following article in the Looking Back column: Starting a New Conversation: Using Innovative Approaches to Ensure New Learning
Joël Laurier, Alison Stewart, Katherine Thornton, Debjani Ray, Hiroyo Nakagawa, & Greg Rouault)
Outreach Grant – Alison Stewart (Issue 23.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/23.1GrantReports.pdf)
2014
PanSIG Conference Grant – Caroline Ross (Issue 22.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/LL-22-1-Grant-Awardees-Essays.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Yoko Sakurai (Issue 22.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/LL-22-1-Grant-Awardees-Essays.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Joel Laurier (Issue 22.3) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Research-grants.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Adrianne Verla (Issue 22.1) https://ld-sig.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/LL-22-1-Grant-Awardees-Essays.pdf)
Research Grant – Tomoko Imamura
2013
LD SIG 20th Anniversary Conference Grant – Tanja McCandie (Issue 21.1) https://ld-sig.org/LL/21one/grants.pdf)
LD SIG 20th Anniversary Conference Grant – Michael Sullivan (Issue 21.1) https://ld-sig.org/LL/21one/grants.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Aya Matsumoto (Issue 21.1) https://ld-sig.org/LL/21one/grants.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Caroline Ross (Issue 21.1)https://ld-sig.org/LL/21one/grants.pdf)
Research Grant – Michi Saki (Issue 21.1) https://ld-sig.org/LL/21one/grants.pdf)
2012
Research Grant – Cory Koby (Issue 20.1) https://ld-sig.org/LL/20two/grants.pdf)
JALT International Conference Grant – Gretchen Clark (Issue 20.1) A snowboarder’s insights: Teaching for the digital age https://ld-sig.org/LL/20one/essays.pdf
JALT International Conference Grant– Jason White (Issue 20.1) From Motivation and Anxiety to Autonomy: Reflections of Learner Development in Japanese High School Students https://ld-sig.org/LL/20one/essays.pdf
2011
Advising for Language Learner Autonomy Conference Grant – Ian Hurrell (Issue 19.1) Lessons from the Advising for Language Learner Autonomy Conference アドバイジング・フォー・ラ ンゲージ・ラーナー・オート ノミー神田外語大学大会から の学び https://ld-sig.org/LL/19one/hurrell.pdf
Advising for Language Learner Autonomy Conference Grant – Meymet Boyno (Issue 19.1) Some Autonomy-Related Problems and Possible Solutions 自律学習に関する問題と解決 の可能性 https://ld-sig.org/LL/19one/boyno.pdf
JALT International Conference Grant – Michael Wilkins (Issue 19.1) Reflections on Autonomy 自律学習のリフレクション https://ld-sig.org/LL/19one/wilkins.pdf
JALT International Conference Grant – Matthew Coomber (Issue 19.1) Reflection on the JALT 2011 Conference JALT 2011 の感想 https://ld-sig.org/LL/19one/coomber.pdf
2007
JALT International Conference Grant – Thomas Amundrud (Issue 15.1) Informal Roundtables: Making Meaningful Spaces for Teacher Talk インフォーマルな座談会: 有意義なティーチャートークの場 – https://ld-sig.org/LL/2008a.pdf#page=17
JALT International Conference Grant – Naoko Harada (Issue 15.1) Teacher Identity: The Case of a Japanese Teacher of English 教師アイデンティティ:日 本人英語教員の場合 https://ld-sig.org/LL/2008a.pdf#page=22
2006
JALT International Conference Grant – Phil Brown (Issue 14.1) A Reflective Journey Through the Learner Development SIG 個人として・教師として の成長の旅-LD SIGを 通して – https://ld-sig.org/LL/2007a.pdf#page=53
JALT International Conference Grant – Greg Rouault