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*Jo Mynard is a Professor in the Faculty of Global Liberal Arts and the Director of the Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Japan. She has been working at KUIS since 2008. Additionally, she serves as the Director of the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education (RILAE) at the same university. In 2003, she completed her Doctorate in Education (TEFL) at the University of Exeter, UK, and she obtained her M.Phil in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin in 1997. Her academic achievements include co-editing or co-authoring 13 books on topics related to autonomy, advising, and language learning outside the classroom. Furthermore, she has published over 100 scholarly works in the field. She serves on the editorial and review boards of several journals, notably SiSAL Journal (Studies in Self-Access Learning), where she has been the managing editor since 2010. She also owns a small academic press (Candlin & Mynard), specializing in learner autonomy and other innovative themes in applied linguistics.

**Satoko Kato is an Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education (RILAE), Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) in Japan. She is also a lecturer at the Graduate School of Language Sciences, KUIS, teaching ‘learner autonomy’ and ‘teacher autonomy’ in the MA TESOL program. She has conducted over 4,000 sessions as a learning advisor in the past 17 years and is in charge of developing and implementing advisor education certificate programs for teachers/advisors, domestically and internationally. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Education from Hiroshima University, Japan, and a Master’s degree in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University, US. She co-authored “Reflective Dialogue: Advising in language learning” with Jo Mynard (Routledge NY, 2016; Japanese translation issued in 2022 from Osaka University Press) and other books and articles related to promoting learner/teacher autonomy in both English and Japanese.