December, 2017

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Volume 8, Number 4, December 2017 

Edited by Kevin Knight, Jo Mynard and Erin Okamoto

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  • Introduction: Supporting Leadership and Academic Development in a SALC by Kevin Knight, Jo Mynard and Erin Okamoto (291-293) [full text] [PDF]

Leadership

  • Conceptualizing Leadership Development in the KUIS SALC by Kevin Knight (294-304) [full text] [PDF]
  • Using Social Networks to Promote Collaboration and Leadership in Foreign Language Learning by Micòl Beseghi (305-322) [full text] [PDF]

Academic Support

  • The Evolution of a SAL Desk: From Academic Writing to Language Support by Shawn Andersson and Maho Nakahashi (323-333) [full text] [PDF]
  • What Constitutes Effective Tutoring on Scripts and Oral Presentations? by Diletta Fabiani and Marta Soler Alemany (334-353) [full text] [PDF]
  • Principles of my TOEIC Test-Prep Workshops and Self-Access Online Materials for TOEIC Preparation by Atsumi Yamaguchi (354-357) [full text] [PDF]

  Reviews (Edited by Hisako Yamashita)

  • Learning Japanese: Voices of Experience by Belinda Kennett and Yuriko Nagata reviewed by Michael Lin (358-361) [full text] [PDF]
  • Language Learner Autonomy: Theory, Practice and Research by David Little, Leni Dam and Lienhard Legenhausen reviewed by Jo Mynard (362-370) [full text] [PDF]

 Upcoming Events

  • Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL), Kobe, Japan. April 27-29, 2018.
  • Psychology of Language Learning Conference (PLL3), Tokyo, Japan. June, 2018.
  • Independent Learning Association (ILA) Conference, Kobe, Japan. September 2018.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of SiSAL Journal. Selected papers from the 2017 Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) Conference.

  • To be edited by Hisako Yamashita, Clair Taylor and Andy Tweed and published in June 2018. The deadline for submissions from presenters or participants is March 31st 2018. Read more…

Cover photo: Global Plaza, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan.