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Published: Volume 14, Number 2, June 2023

Posted on June 30, 2023 | Leave a comment

Edited by Jo Mynard

Contents

Articles

  • Language Learning Beyond the Classroom in an Asian Context: Obstacles Encountered by David Gardner, Ken Lau, Ming-i Lydia Tseng, Li-Tang Yu, and Yun-Pi Yuan (106–135) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Self-Regulation Strategies in Online EFL/ESL Learning: A Systematic Review by Şadıman Hunutlu (136–166) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Supporting the Transition to Self-Directed Learning in ESL: A Coaching Intervention by Colin Mitchell (167–184) [Full text] [PDF]
  • The 7-Day Challenge: Taking Steps Towards a Learning Habit by Thomas Stones (185–200) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Linguistic Diversity in Self-Access Language Learning in Japan: A Growing Role for Languages Other than English? by Katherine Thornton (201–231) [Full text] [PDF]

Descriptions of Practice

  • Maker Conversation: Successes and Challenges in a University SALC by Jamison Taube-Shibata and Andria Lorentzen (232–239) [Full text] [PDF]

Cover image: Kanda University of International Studies

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Published: Volume 14, Number 1, March 2023

Posted on March 31, 2023 | Leave a comment

Special Issue on Online Advising and Consultations in Self-Access

Edited by Jo Mynard and Adelia Peña Clavel

Contents

  • Introduction by Jo Mynard and Adelia Peña Clavel (1–4) [Full text] [PDF]

Articles

  • The Future Role of Online Consultations Within Self-access Learning by Shawn Andersson and Maho Nakahashi (5–25) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Establishing an Online Writing Centre: Understanding Writing Consultants’ Perceptions and Experiences of Synchronous Virtual One-to-One Tutoring by Yu Hang Kwan (26–44) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Learner and Advisor Perceptions of Online Advising During a Pandemic by Jo Mynard, Satoko Kato and Scott J. Shelton-Strong (45–66) [Full text] [PDF]
  • The New Normal: Student Preferences for Online Advising Before, During, and After the Pandemic by Miriam Sullivan and Michael McAuley (67–80) [Full text] [PDF]

Regular Column: Ethnographies of Self-Access Language Learning (Edited by Rob Werner)

  • Preface to the Column by Rob Werner (81)
  • Six mois sur Duolingo pour apprendre le français, le chinois, et d’autres langues : An Experiential Diary Account of Linguistic Diversity by Rachel Suet Kay Chan (81–101) [Full text] [PDF]

Cover image by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

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Call for guest editors of SiSAL Journal

Posted on March 24, 2023 | Leave a comment

Are you interested in editing or co-editing an upcoming issue? We’d love to hear from you!

Benefits:

  • Read the latest research in self-access
  • Learn about journal management
  • Connect with colleagues around the world
  • Support and encourage the research community and mentor early-career researchers

It’s rewarding work, and we would like to offer the opportunity to others to develop their editorial skills, and build their CVs while helping our research community.

If you are interested, please send an email to: editor@sisaljournal.org

Please do the following

  • Explain why you are interested
  • Give details of your background in self-access
  • Share your experience with writing, editing or managing a journal
  • Provide details of how much time you have available.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Volume 13, Issue 4 published

Posted on January 14, 2023 | Leave a comment

Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2022

Edited by Jo Mynard

Contents

Articles

  • Shadow Education in Hong Kong: An Insight From Local Private Tutors by Richard Ching Ho Cheng (392–408) [Full text] [PDF]
  • EAL Student Capability: Taking a Leap Through the Dragon’s Gate by Kerstin Dofs (409–425) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Processes Employed to Introduce Autonomous Learning by Secundino Isabeles Flores, María Magdalena Cass Zubiría, and Raphael Hubert Elie Sebire (426–441) [Full text] [PDF]

Reviews (edited by Hisako Yamashita)

  • Nearpod Slides to Enhance Students’ Self-Study by Kiki Juli Anggoro, Uswatun Khasanah, and Nicola Milnes (442–446) [Full text][PDF]

Recently Published

  • JALT Learner Development SIG. The Learner Development Journal, Issue 6: Learner development beyond the classroom. Edited by Isra Wongsarnpigoon, Dominique Vola Ambinintsoa, Phillip A. Bennett, & André Parsons. [LINK]

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Call for Papers. Special Issue: Online advising and consultations in self-access.

Posted on October 5, 2022 | Leave a comment

SiSAL Journal Special Issue:  ‘Online advising and consultations in self-access.’

Editors: Jo Mynard and Adelia Peña Clavel

Submission deadline: December 20th 2022. Publication date: March, 2023.

In March 2023, we will publish a special issue on online advising and consultations in self-access. Online advising and consulting became the usual way to support students for extended periods during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools and campuses were closed and students were studying at home. However, some institutions had already been offering such support for many years, even before the pandemic. We are hoping to learn from our collective experiences and answer questions such as: 

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