Language Teaching Research Quarterly

I first got to know Rebecca when I was researching a topic for my own PhD back in the 1990s. As anyone who has trodden this path will know, trying to find something novel, feasible, and about which one can be sufficiently excited to sustain the enthusiasm through the hours of work involved, is no easy ask. Then I came across an article on language learning strategies by John Green and Rebecca (1995) in a journal which had recently arrived in the Auckland Institute of Studies (AIS) library, where I was working at the time, and I knew this was it. I wrote to Rebecca asking for permission to use the SILL (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) in my thesis, permission which she unhesitatingly gave, and which resulted in the completion of my thesis some years later (Griffiths, 2003). She also invited me to join her on conference presentations, a number of which we have done together in many places around the world in the years since. There have also been a number of joint publications, such as the special issue on language learning strategies with System (2014).