Louise Ohashi

Machine Translation (MT) is receiving increasing attention within language education due to both its affordances and the potential it offers for academic misconduct. To understand more about teachers’ views and practices, a survey was conducted with 153 foreign language (L2) educators who teach at Japanese universities. The survey examined their; (1) use of MT to assist with L2 reading, writing, speaking, and listening, both personally and in their courses; (2) views on MT in language education; and (3) knowledge of how to help students use MT effectively and their willingness to learn about this. The results indicated that most teachers supported the use of MT as a learning tool, but many had concerns over its misuse. Few felt they had enough knowledge to guide students toward effective use and the vast majority wanted to learn more about how to do so. These findings highlight a need for teacher support and underscore the necessity of more research and workplace discussions on the integration and regulation of MT within L2 education.

This article reports on research and teaching methods related to self-directed learning (SDL) that were presented by four SDL teachers in a forum at JALT2020. There is growing interest in the role teachers and institutions can play in fostering learner autonomy (Blidi, 2017; Lai, 2017; Murray, 2014; Ohashi, 2018, 2019). This article addresses the need for greater transparency in the practical aspects of aiding students to take charge of their learning within and beyond classrooms. It shows different ways each author approached the same SDL course that they taught at a university in Tokyo, by introducing language learning histories, future self exploration, planning-action-reflection cycles, negotiated goal contracts, learning logs, and asynchronous peer interaction. Through sharing their experiences, insights, and research outcomes, the authors hope to contribute knowledge of practical ways in which SDL can be approached by teachers and institutions.本稿では、自己主導型学習（self-directed learning、以下SDL）の授業を担当する4名の教師がJALT2020のフォーラムで発表したSDLに関する研究と教授方法を報告する。学習者の自律性の育成において、教師や教育機関が果たせる役割への関心が高まっている（Blidi, 2017; Lai, 2017; Murray, 2014; Ohashi, 2018, 2019）。本稿は、学生が授業内外で学習に主体的に取り組むための実践的な支援方法の透明性を高めるニーズに応える。著者らは東京の同じ大学で同一科目SDLを担当し、それぞれが言語学習ヒストリー、将来の自分探し、計画―実行―省察サイクル、交渉した目標の契約、学習ログ、非同期ピア・インタラクションという異なるアプローチを実践した。本稿ではこれらの経験、洞察、研究成果を共有し、教師や教育機関によるSDL支援方法に関する知見を提供する。

This article reports on an autoethnography by two authors who analysed the interrelationship of their experiences as foreign language learners, educators, and researchers. Both participant-researchers had taken advantage of the accessibility of online learning resources to learn new languages, had incorporated digital tools into their teaching practices, and had researched how technology could be used as a learning aid for students inside and outside the classroom. In this collaborative autoethnography, they turned the research lens upon themselves and each other to develop understandings of the way their experiences as language learners and researchers impacted upon their teacher cognition and teaching practices.

This paper reports on a forum featuring four presentations on learner autonomy research, all with practical applications. The paper gives an overview of the purpose of the forum, a short summary of each of the presentations, a discussion of some of the main themes and methods, and a summary of the ways in which the forum themes were continued to be investigated through the Q&A session and in follow-up recordings and interviews. The four projects described in the paper are: the role of classroom teachers in fostering out-of-class, autonomous language learning, exploring online peer interaction in social networking sites, examining the relationship between students' agency and affordances for learning when studying abroad, and investigating learner autonomy in a self-access context from a self-determination theory perspective.