Volume 4, Number 1, March 2013

Issue edited by Rachael Ruegg

• Editorial by Rachael Ruegg (1-4)  [full text] [PDF]

Articles

• Writing Centers: Who are they for? What are they for? by Elton LaClare and Tracy Franz (5-16) [full text] [PDF]

• So You Want to Start a Peer Online Writing Center? by Christine Rosalia (17-42)  [full text] [PDF]

• The Learner as Researcher: Student Concordancing and Error Correction by Jacqueline Mull (43-55)  [full text] [PDF]

Reviews and Reports

• Announcing the ESL-WOW for Self-Directed Writing Support by Thaddeus M. Niles  (56-61)  [full text] [PDF]

• JASAL Forum 2012: Making a Difference Through Self Access. Report on the Japan Association of Self Access Learning (JASAL) Forum held in Hamamatsu, Japan in October 2012 by Satomi Shibata  (62-69)  [full text] [PDF]

Announcement

Upcoming special issue: Call for papers

• Special Issue on Accessing and Accessorizing for Self-Access Language Learning (SALL). December, 2013 (Volume 4, Issue 4) edited by Carol J. Everhard

Special issue on Strategies and Self-Regulation in Self-Access Learning

Volume 3, Number 4, December 2012 Download complete issue PDF / Read online (issuu.com)

Issue edited by Heath Rose

• Editorial by Heath Rose (322-329) [full text] [PDF]

Featured Articles

• Learning Strategies: Prototypical Core and Dimensions of Variation by Yongqi Gu (330-356) [full text] [PDF]

• Alternative Models of Self-regulation and Implications for L2 Strategy Research by Jim Ranalli (357-376) [full text] [PDF]

• Re-placing the Jewel in the Crown of Autonomy: A Revisiting of the ‘Self’ or ‘Selves’ in Self-access by Carol J. Everhard (377-391)  [full text] [PDF]

Research Articles

• The Metacognitive Strategic Knowledge of Seven Successful Chinese L1 Readers at a North American University: A Qualitative Study by Alex Poole  (392-406) [full text] [PDF]

• EFL Students’ Writing Strategies in Saudi Arabian ESP Writing Classes: Perspectives on Learning Strategies in Self-access Language Learning by Mohammad Alnufaie and Michael Grenfell  (407-422) [full text] [PDF]

• Exploring the Effects of Self-efficacy on Vocabulary Learning strategies by Atsushi Mizumoto  (423-437) [full text] [PDF]

• Language Counseling Trends: Implications for Beginning Language Learner Strategy Instruction by Erin O’Reilly (438- 451) [full text] [PDF]

• Leading the Proverbial Thirsty Horse to Water: ESL Learners’ Experience with Language Learning Contracts by Normah Ismail and Masdinah Alauyah Md Yusof  (452-464) [full text] [PDF]

• Self-access Materials: Their Features and their Selection in Students’ Literacy Practices by María del Rocío Domínguez-Gaona, Guadalupe López-Bonilla and Karen Englander (465-481)  [full text] [PDF]

Announcements

• Upcoming issues: Calls for papers
  • March, 2013: Special Issue on Self-Access Writing Support edited by Rachael Ruegg
  • June, 2013: Regular issue edited by Jo Mynard
  • September, 2013: Regular issue edited by Jo Mynard
  • December, 2013: Special Issue on Accessing and Accessorizing for Self-Access Language Learning (SALL) edited by Carol J. Everhard

• Editorial by Jo Mynard (212-214) [full text] [PDF]

Articles

• The Impact of Teacher Training for Autonomous Learning by Martha Armida Fabela-Cárdenas (215-236) [full text] [PDF]

Continue reading →

• Editorial by Jo Mynard (133-136) [full text] [PDF]

• Language Learning Strategy Research: Where do we go from here? by Heath Rose (137-148) [full text] [PDF ]
• Investigating the Information Needs of University Students in Foundational Foreign Language Courses by Glenna Westwood (149-162) [full text] [PDF]
• Advising Practices: A Survey of Self-Access Learner Motivations and Preferences by Leander S. Hughes, Nathan P. Krug, and Stacey L. Vye (163-181) [full text] [PDF]
• Supporting the Language and Learning Development of  EAL Students in Australian Higher Education by Paul J. Moore (182-195) [full text] [PDF]

• Investigating Students’ Ways to Learn English Outside of Class: A Researchers’ Narrative by Howard Doyle and Michael Parrish (196-203) [full text] [PDF]
• Learning Phrasal Verbs Autonomously by Pauline Moore Hanna (204-211) [full text] [PDF]

• Upcoming Special Issues: Calls for Papers
  • SiSAL Journal Special Issue on Strategy Development in Self-Access edited by Heath Rose
  • SiSAL Journal Special Issue on Self-Access Writing Support edited by Rachael Ruegg