Speaker:
Kay Irie
Affiliation:
Professor at the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University
Bio:
Kay Irie is a professor at the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University, Tokyo where she coordinates the English program. She is also an adjunct professor in the TESOL program at Graduate College of Education, Temple University Japan. Her current research interests include CLIL pedagogy, language learning psychology, learner autonomy, and research methods used in these areas including Q-methodology. She was co-chair of JALT 2015: Focus on the Learner and co-editor of Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts (Palgrave 2012). The book project emerged out of the JALT Learner Development SIG get-togethers.
Speaker:
Jo Mynard
Affiliation:
Director of the Self-Access Learning Center at Kanda University of International Studies
Bio:
Professor Jo Mynard is Director of the Self-Access Learning Center at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Chiba, Japan. She holds an EdD in TEFL from the University of Exeter, UK and an M.Phil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. She is the founding editor of Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal and has also co-edited four books related to learner autonomy and advising. She co-authored Reflective Dialogue: Advising in Language Learning with Satoko Kato (Routledge 2015). She is particularly interested in research related to advising, self-directed learning, learning beyond the classroom / self-access learning, and the affective dimensions of language learning. In 2017, she was appointed Director of the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education (RILAE).
Image of Kay Irie provided by Kay Irie. Image of Jo Mynard provided by Jo Mynard. Composite image edited by Sean Gay.