March, 2011

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SiSAL Journal

CONTENTS: Volume 2, Number 1, March 2011

Articles

  • Reading an ESL Writer’s Text by Paul Kei Matsuda and Michelle Cox [full text] [PDF]

  • Learning to Foster Autonomy: The Role of Teacher Education Materials by Hayo Reinders and Cem Balcikanli [full text] [PDF]

Perspectives

  • Introducing the Skills of Self-assessment and Peer Feedback by Rania K. Jabr [full text] [PDF]

Summaries

  • Lessons Learned while Managing my First Book Club by Holly Marland [full text] [PDF]
  • Overview of “Splendid Speaking” Website by Peter Travis [full text] [PDF]

Work in Progress

  • Learning strategy sheets – supporting advisors and learners by Katherine Thornton [full text] [PDF]

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

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December, 2010

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CONTENTS: Volume 1, Number 3, December, 2010

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]

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September, 2010

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CONTENTS: Volume 1, Number 2, September, 2010

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]
Summaries
  • 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]

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June, 2010

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CONTENTS: Volume 1, Number 1, June, 2010

Perspectives

  • Some Self-Access Principles by Lucy Cooker [full text] [PDF]
  • What Factors Encourage High Levels of Student Participation in a Self-Access Centre? by Keith Barrs [full text] [PDF]

Articles

  • English Language Writing Centres in Japanese Universities: What do Students Really Need? by Jim McKinley [full text] [PDF]

  • An Investigation of Student use of a Self-Access English-only Speaking Area by Heath Rose & Roxanne Elliott [full text] [PDF]
  • Integrating Self-Access into the Curriculum: Our Experience by Gene Thompson and Lee Atkinson [full text] [PDF]

Work in Progress

  • A New Member of the Family: The Sojo International Learning Centre by Jon Rowberry [full text] [PDF]

Reports

  • Report on the Japan Association of Self-Access Learning (JASAL) Forum, at the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) 2009 Conference in Shizuoka. by  Jo Mynard and Diego Navarro [full text] [PDF]

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