December 2024

Volume 15, Number 4, December 2024. 

Special Issue on Integrating a SALC at a University in Northern Japan

Edited by Brian J Birdsell and Jo Mynard

Contents

  • Introduction by Brian J Birdsell (375–378) [full text] [PDF]

Articles

  • Integrating a SALC Into a Short-Term Study Abroad Program: Analyzing One Former Student’s Experience by Brian J Birdsell and Saki Niioka (379–395) [full text] [PDF]
  • SALC as a Community: Perspectives on Heavy-Recurrent Users by Joshua Lee Solomon (396–419) [full text] [PDF]
  • Crossing Language Boundaries on Campus: Using a SALC as a Learning Space for Interactive Homework by Brian J Birdsell (420–441) [full text] [PDF]

Summaries

  • Integrating the English Lounge at Hirosaki University by Megumi Tada and Shari Joy Berman (442–452) [full text] [PDF]
  • Integrating Hirosaki University’s SALC Into a Minor Program by Reik Jagno (453–465) [full text] [PDF]
  • Connecting Faculties and the SALC: A Special Lecture Series by Sanae Katagiri (466–476) [full text] [PDF]

Announcements

Call for papers

Special Issue on Teacher Education for Self-Access and Outside-Class Support edited by Dominique Vola Ambinintsoa. Deadline for full submissions: March 1, 2025. Read more…

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to all our reviewers and editors for their help this year: Andrew Tweed, Amelia Yarwood, Andrej Krasnansky, Bethan Kushida, Brian J Birdsell, Christine Nicolaides, Christine O’Leary Daniel Hooper, David McLoughlin, Dennis koyama, Diego Mideros, Dominic Edsall, Dominique Vola Ambinintsoa, Eduardo Castro, Elena Borsetto, Emily Marzin, Euan Bonner, Graham Burton, Hatice Karaaslan, Hisako Yamashita, Isra Wongsarnpigoon, Jennie Roloff Rothman, Kerstin Dofs, Kie Yamamoto, Kodiak Atwood, Luke Carson, Marcella Menegale, Maria Giovanna Tassinari, Neil Curry, Paul Lyddon, Phillip Bennett, Phoebe Lyon, Qunyan Zhong, Rachael Ruegg, Robert Dykes, Roderick Julian Robillos, Satoko Watkins, Scott Shelton-Strong, Sina Takada, Tarik Uzun, Thomas Ashton, Troy Rubesch, Ward Peeters, Yukari Rutson-Griffiths, and Yuri Imamura.

Cover images: Hirosaki University, Japan