June 2024

Volume 15, issue 2. Special Issue: Self-Access and Self-Directed Language Learning in Europe

Edited by Elena Borsetto, David McLoughlin, and Jo Mynard

Contents

  • Introduction by Elena Borsetto, David McLoughlin, and Jo Mynard (pp. 119–126) [Full text] [PDF]

Articles

  • Creating a Self-Access Academic Writing Centre at a Trilingual University: What Have We Learned in the First Three Years? Graham Burton, Elena Borsetto, Alessandra Giglio, and Leonhard Voltmer (pp. 127–147) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Extramural German Activities and Motivation to Learn German as a Foreign Language in the Secondary Education Context by Balázs Fajt (pp. 148–171) [Full text] [PDF]
  • “I’m a Thing-Finder” – Children’s Engagement in Meaningful Activities and Their Language Learning Possibilities in Out-of-Class Education by Elina Maslo (pp. 172–186) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Enhancing L2 Confidence Through Learning Diaries: A Replication Study on Italian Lower-Secondary School Students by Marcella Menegale and Lucia Spricigo (pp. 187–212) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Fostering Students’ Self-Directed Language Learning: Approaches to Advising by Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová and Radim Herout (pp. 213–228) [Full text] [PDF]

Case Studies

  • Learning from Good Learners: A Case Study by Lesley Adams and Erik Gasparini (pp. 229–241) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Exploring the Potential of Study With Me as an English-Language Learning Tool: A Multiple-Case Study of Secondary School Pupils in Austria by Lawrie Moore (pp. 242–257) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Self-Access Language Learning Support in Europe: Observations and Current Practices by Jo Mynard (pp. 258–278) [Full text] [PDF]

Reviews

  • Risorse per l’apprendimento autodiretto dell’italiano da Marco Lera, David McLoughlin, e Jo Mynard (pp. 279–289) [Full text] [PDF]
  • Resources for Self-Directed Learning of Italian by Marco Lera, David McLoughlin, and Jo Mynard (pp. 290–300) [Full text] [PDF]

Ethnographies of Self-Access Column

  • Communicating in English as a Second Language Aboard a European Cruise Line: An Autoethnographic Sketch by Leoncio Olobia (pp. 301–311) [Full text] [PDF]