Learning Learning
Learning Learning is a bilingual (English/Japanese) newsletter published by JALT's Learner Development N-SIG. So far, volumes 1 (1994), 2 (1995-6) and 3 (1996-7) have been been completed, and hard copies are available for Y1,000 per volume (incl. postage) from Hugh Nicoll, Miyazaki Municipal University, 1-1-2 Funatsuka, Miyazaki-shi 880-8520 Japan, phone (w) +81 985-20-4788, fax (w) +81 985-20-4807, e-mail hnicoll@miyazaki-mu.ac.jp.For current issues, please contact Steve Brown. For further information on SIG officers, please see our officers page.
Current editors : Andy Barfield, , and Mike Nix.
Contributions : The editors are happy to hear from anyone (including non-members) interested in contributing articles, book reviews, lesson reports, news etc. to Learning Learning.
Newer issues:
Volume 8, number 2 (July 2001)
Volume 8, number 1 (April 2001)
A selection of articles, reports and book reviews in back issues
- Vol.1, no.1 (March, 1994)
- Vol.1, no.2 (July, 1994)
- What do they think? A survey of student language learning beliefs (Keith Adams)
- Can students set their own goals and objectives?: A preliminary report (Dale T. Griffee)
- Before writing: Developing awareness of English rhetorical structure (Sonia Yoshitake)
- Vol.1, no.3 (September, 1994)
- On the use of TV Programs in self-directed Japanese language learning by immigrants to Japan (Mari Nishitani; summary by Akiko Kashiwamura)
- Vol.1, no.4 (December, 1994)
- The Silent Way: Subordinating teaching to learning (Roslyn Young)
- Vol.2, no.1 (March, 1995)
- Reading courses: A question of self-motivation? (Andrew Barfield) [Read also Andy's most recent writing on reading!
- A review of Philip Goldberg's The Intuitive Edge (Mary Scholl)
- Vol.2, no.2 (July, 1995)
- A critical view of learner training (Phil Benson)
- A review of Bernard Dufeu's Teaching Myself (Michael Guest)
- Vol 2, no.3 (December, 1995)
- The status of strategies in learning: A brief history of changes in researchers' views (Isao Murayama)
- The usefulness of learning diaries in learner training (Miyuki Usuki)
- An unrepeatable lesson (Naoko Aoki)
- Vol.2, no.4 (February, 1996)
- Report on the fifth Nordic Workshop on Developing Autonomous Learning (Peter Voller)
- The politics of learner autonomy (David Little)
- Vol.3, no.1 (April, 1996)
- Pedagogy and andragogy: A false dichotomy? (Stephen Brivati)
- A reader responce approach to junior high oral communication classes (Barry Mateer)
- Who's ruling whom?: Shifting control and initiative from the teacher to young learners (Renee Gauthier)
- Vol.3, no.2 (October, 1996)
- Tokyo JALT Spring Conference Reports
- Reports from the Teacher/Learner Development Action Workshops
- Vol.3, no.3 (January, 1997)
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On using computers as a tool for learning: Part
1 (Bill Bernhardt)
- Listening as a Way into Reading (Andy Barfield)
- JALT 96 presentataion reports
- Vol.4, no.1 (April, 1997)
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On using computers as a tool for learning: Part
2 (Bill Bernhardt)
- Learning by correspondence (Hiroyuki Izawa)
- Japanese is my language too (Cheiron McMahill)
- Autonomy 2000 Conference Report (Richard Smith)
- Vol.4, no.2 (September, 1997)
- Japanese is my language too: The Battle of the Belly Sash (Cheiron McMahill)
- Survival Strategies for the Semi-Literate (Stephen M. Ryan)
- Reports and Reflections relating to the Conference on Autonomy in Language Learning held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 23rd-25th, 1994
- Conference overview (Richard Smith) (Vol.1, no.3).
- Designing materials to promote autonomous learning by David Nunan (report by Ian Harrison) (Vol.1, no.3).
- Counselling and consultation for autonomy: the skilled helper in self-access language learning by Rena Kelly (report by Naoko Aoki) (Vol.1, no.3).
- Students in the academic community: Aspiring to meaningful autonomy by Nigel Bruce (reflection by Hugh Nicoll) (Vol.1, no.3).
- Introduction of self-directed learning to learners of Japanese language by Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson (report by Naoko Aoki) (Vol.1, no.4).
- The autonomous learner as researcher, discourse analyst and experimenter by Ken Willing (report by Richard Smith) (Vol.2, no.1).
- An interview with Leni Dam (report and interview by Richard Smith) (Vol.2, no.1).
- Autonomy in Asia (Naoko Aoki) (Vol.1, no.4).
Note: Selected papers from those presented at the Conference on Autonomy in Language Learning have been published in Taking Control : Autonomy in Language Learning
