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Special Issue on CALL, E-learning and M-learning
Contents: Volume 2, Number 3, September 2011

• Editorial by Jo Mynard (100-106) [full text] [PDF]

Articles

• Emerging Technologies for Autonomous Language Learning by Mark Warschauer and Meei-Ling Liaw (107-118) [full text] [PDF]

• Investigating Language Learning Activity Using a CALL Task in the Self-access Centre (119-135) by Carlos Montoro and Regine Hampel [full text] [PDF]

• Alternatives for Making Language Learning Games More Appealing for Self-access Learning (136-152) by Charatdao Intratat [full text] [PDF]

• Enhancing Learner Autonomy in an On-line Editing Programme (153-169) by Hebe Wong [full text] [PDF]

• A Two Year Cross-Section of Student Use of Self-Access eLearning (170-181) by Richard S. Pinner [full text] [PDF]

• Pre-University Experience of ICT and Self-Access Learning in Japan (182-194) by Thomas Lockley [full text] [PDF]

• Web 2.0 Sites for Collaborative Self-Access: The Learning Advisor vs. Google® (195-211) by Craig D. Howard [full text] [PDF]

Perspectives

• Retooling Perspectives on Technology’s Role in Language Education (212-218) by Randall Davis [full text] [PDF]

Summaries and work in progress

• Cell Phones + Self-Access: A Summer Campaign (219-227) by Kirsten Mashinter [full text] [PDF]

• Mobility in Learning: The Feasibility of Encouraging Language Learning on Smartphones (228-233) by Keith Barrs [full text] [PDF]

Resources

• Introducing ‘Prepare for Success’, a Web-based Learning Resource to Help International Students get Ready for Study in the UK (234-237) by Julie Watson [full text] [PDF]

Copyright © 2011 Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, ISSN 2185-3762.
Copyright held by individual authors.

CONTENTS: Volume 1, Number 3, December, 2010

• Editorial by Jo Mynard [full text] [PDF]

Articles

• Beliefs about Self-Access Learning: Reflections on 15 years of change by David Gardner and Lindsay Miller [full text] [PDF]

• Co-constructing Understanding of Self Access through Conversational Narrative by John Adamson, Howard Brown and Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson [full text] [PDF]

• Listening to the Learner: A Qualitative Investigation of Motivation Towards the Use or Avoidance of Self-access Centres by Hamish Gillies [full text] [PDF]

• Chinese ESL Learners’ Beliefs and the Implications for their Autonomous Learning by Qunyan Zhong [full text] [PDF]

• Students’ Beliefs about the Development of Oral Skills in a Self-Access Center in South-Eastern Mexico by Juan Pablo Alcaraz Lagarriga

Conference Announcements

• Advising for Language Learner Autonomy, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan. November 12th, 2011. [full text] [PDF]

CONTENTS: Volume 1, Number 2, September, 2010

• Editorial by Jo Mynard [full text] [PDF]

Articles

• Principles and Procedures for Self-Access Materials by Brian Tomlinson [full text] [PDF]

• Self-Access Language Learning in Museums: A Materials Development Project by Lucy Cooker & Richard Pemberton [full text] [PDF]

• Self-Access Centers: Maximizing Learners’ Access to Center Resources by Benjamin L. McMurry, Mark W. Tanner & Neil J. Anderson [full text] [PDF]

Work in Progress

• Enhancing a Self-Access Website by Troy Rubesch [full text] [PDF]

• English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Modules in the Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) for Success in the Global Workplace by Kevin Knight [full text] [PDF]

• Developing Song Worksheets for a SALC by Simon Cooke [full text] [PDF]

Reviews and Resources

• Internet-Based Resources for Developing Listening by Ene Peterson [full text] [PDF]

• Review of Open Culture website by Anna Taylor (Gorevanova) [full text] [PDF]