Rachelle MEILLEUR    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2016/08/23
Presentation Theme	Reflecting on Language Study: the Gap between Learners’ Thoughts and Actual Behaviour
Conference	Individuals in Context: Psychology of Language Learning 2
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	Jyväskylä, Finland
Publisher and common publisher	Tanimura, M., Meilleur, R., Kono, H.
Details	Self-regulated learning is one of the key concepts that allows learners to achieve their individual learning goals (Koto & Mynard, 2015). There have been many tracking devices created in which learners log their study to check their learning behaviour, but little work has done to closely look at the reflection of not only learners’ behaviour but also their thoughts. We explored how learners structurally reflect their everyday learning in interviews with their teachers, and we revealed the gap between learners’ thoughts and actual behaviour by analyzing their study log sheets. In interviews, the learners’ story was structurally constructed with three steps: expressing thoughts about their learning, expressing their excuses, followed by their regret, and finally, wishes or future plans. In this point, this indicates that learners reflect on their behaviour in a negative way. However, the second half of the interviews revealed that learners’ actual behaviours were well organized.