Call for papers. SiSAL Journal is planning to publish a special issue on Self-access and the Coronavirus Pandemic in September 2020 (Volume 11, Issue 3). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: July 20th, 2020.
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Call for Papers: SiSAL Journal is planning to publish a special issue on selected papers from the Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) 2017 Conference in June 2018 (Volume 9, Issue 2) edited by Hisako Yamashita, Clair Taylor and Andy Tweed. The deadline for submissions from presenters or participants is March 31st 2018.
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The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) is a non-profit professional organization devoted to promoting self-access language learning in Japan. Its annual conferences have provided opportunities for members to share ideas about self-access language learning, running self-access centers and developing learner autonomy. In this special issue, we will have selected papers from the JASAL 2017 Annual Conference which was held on December 16th, 2017 at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan.
“Enriching Self-Access Environments” was the theme of JASAL 2017 conference. Self-access environments need to be carefully designed in order to provide learners with the flexibility to explore resources and opportunities for learning. In Japan and in other countries around the world, we have a great variety of self-access environments, and many factors influence these. Learner populations and their needs, the availability of financial and human resources, the goals of the institution, and the beliefs of administrators, staff, learning advisors and teachers all influence what is provided in self-access environments.
The editors invite submissions from JASAL 2017 presenters on their creative and or innovative practices to enrich their self-access environments, which they presented at JASAL 2017. Non-presenters can also submit their reviews of JASAL 2017 or reflections on the conference. The papers can be in English or Japanese, but we ask contributors writing in Japanese to submit their abstract in English as well.
This special issue may publish the following:
Submissions will follow the usual blind peer review process. Please refer to the following page for a detailed description of submission types and format:
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The field of self-access language learning, and related fields such as language learning advising and self-directed language learning, is a growing and dynamic field of scholarly research and pedagogical practice. This research is conducted all over the world, and in many languages. The early groundbreaking work in the wider field of learner autonomy in the 1980s was led by Henri Holec at the Council of Europe working predominantly in French. In Mexico, the field has a very active research community working in Spanish. However, the majority of the research is often published in English.
At SiSAL Journal, we would like to recognise and highlight the hugely valuable contributions being made by colleagues in all contexts and provide a platform for those researchers working languages other than English to connect to others in their field in their own language. SiSAL often features articles about research in non-English speaking contexts, and has always welcomed submissions in languages other than English, but there is no mistaking that English is often assumed as the dominant language of educational (and other academic) research, and few such submissions have been received. Therefore, we would would like to announce a new multilingual SiSAL column and are putting out this Call for Editors. If you are working in self-access in a language other than English and would be interested in editing a column of several papers in that language to appear in an upcoming issue of SiSAL Journal, please get in touch.
The column
Each column instalment will feature three papers about self-access language learning in the featured language of that instalment. The papers can be any format from the SiSAL guidelines, but at least one should be a substantial research paper, perspective or literature review.
The editor(s) of each instalment will be responsible for:
The regular SiSAL Journal editorial team will offer advice and support throughout the process, but the instalment editor will be in charge of making editorial and content decisions. Editors may like to refer to the following previous Calls for Papers when writing their own Calls:
Column Timelines
Later dates are also possible.
Next steps
Potential editors should contact Chief Column Editor Katherine Thornton at columns@sisaljournal.org and state the following (in English):
If you would like to make an informal inquiry before submitting these details, feel free to do so.
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Volume 7, Number 2, June 2016
Special Issue on Virtual and Other Learning Spaces
Edited by Curtis Edlin and Jo Mynard
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Articles
Discussion Article
Edited by Hisako Yamashita
Language Learning Spaces Part 5: Developing Learner Autonomy Through Integrating the Physical Learning Space with Curriculum
Edited by Katherine Thornton
Announcement
Upcoming Event: Empowering Students in Self-Access Learning Conference (ESSALC)
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