The Milne Innovation Awards 2025

国際多読学会（ERF)が選んでいるThe Milne Innovation Awards　が
あるのですが、この賞を日本人として初めて受賞しました。
YLの設定と公開とSEGでの多読の実践が評価されたようです。
古川

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2025 – Akio Furukawa, CEO of SEG (Scientific Education Group). who has made multiple impacts. 1) making ER logistically doable at scale in Japan: 2) providing a practical, learner-oriented leveling system (YL) that works across publishers, 3) building and sharing the book/word-count infrastructure needed to run ER libraries, and (4) demonstrating a high-fidelity ER model at SEG (SSR, teacher-guided choice, listening integration) that others could copy or adapt.

2023 – Marc Helgesen, Professor, Miyagi Gakuin University, for his creation of the Language Learner Literature Awards, now going into its 20th year, his contribution of classroom materials for Extensive Reading and his leadership of the Extensive Reading Foundation as its second Chair.

2017 – Thomas N. Robb, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto
Japan, for his work creating the on-line MReader ER book quiz center accessed by over 50,000 students a year and who take for over 1,000,000 quizzes cumulatively on the system, and for his leadership in founding and serving as Chair of the Extensive Reading Foundation.

2013 – Richard R. Day, Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, for his seminal work, Extensive Reading in the Second Language Classroom (with Julian Bamford) and his leadership of the Extensive Reading Foundation as its first Chair.

2011 – Robert O’Neill, Author of pioneering texts such as Kernel Lessons, with its continuing story, “The Man Who Escaped”.

2010 – David R. Hill, Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Edinburgh Project in Extensive Reading (EPER) since 1981.