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Investigating the Significance of Coxhead’s Academic Word List for Self-Access Learners

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2022
The present study explored Thai EFL university students’ perceived benefits of self-learning Coxhead’s Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) on their academic communicative skills and whether or not it should be incorporated into academic textbooks ...
Thinley Wangdi
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Book Review. How to Learn Spanish: A Guide to Powerful Principles and Strategies for Successful Learning and Self-Empowerment by María Blanco (2021).

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2022
This excellent, strategy-loaded little guidebook on learning Spanish is highly applicable for learning any language. It is equally suitable for students, teachers, and language advisors, as students will learn strategies, and teachers and advisors get ...
Kerstin Dofs
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English for Academic Study: An Open Access Academic English Course. Review of a FutureLearn Course

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2020
A recent global trend in the domain of self-access learning has been MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), enabling flexible participation and open access to online learning resources via the web.
Nashid Nigar
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Fostering Students’ Self-Directed Language Learning: Approaches to Advising

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
This paper describes and discusses how two formats of advising in language learning offered at the Masaryk University Language Centre attempt to respond to students’ needs in self-regulating their learning. The focus is on comparing the advising sessions
Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová, Radim Herout   +1 more
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Book review: Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas edited by Alice Chik, Naoko Aoki and Richard Smith

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2019
This edited collection of research studies makes an important theoretical and practical contribution to the literature by illustrating the expanding dimensions of autonomous language learning and teaching, deepening our conceptualization of the ...
Gamze A. Sayram
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An Investigation Into EFL Learners’ Electronic Feedback Practices During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Support and Challenges

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
Previous research has suggested that e-feedback mechanisms are widely misunderstood, difficult to perform efficiently, and often need to fulfill expectations to affect student performance substantially (Carless & Boud, 2018).
Atef AbuSa’aleek, Eyhab Yaghi
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Extensive Reading as the First Step to Use the SALC: The Acclimation Period and a Community of Language Learners

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2016
This paper describes an example of how to bring language learners into a self-access language learning center (SALC) in a Japanese university. A number of factors affect learners’ decision making about whether or not they use and continue using the SALC.
Satomi Shibata
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Extramural German Activities and Motivation to Learn German as a Foreign Language in the Secondary Education Contex

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
This study investigates the motivation for learning German as a Foreign Language (GFL) of Hungarian secondary school students, in particular, their extramural activities and the impact of these activities on their learning motivation in second language ...
Balázs Fajt
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Understanding and Supporting Self-Access Learners

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2014
This is the 18th issue of SiSAL Journal and includes contributions from Australia, the USA, Iran, Turkey, the UK, Japan, and Ecuador.
Jo Mynard
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Personal Learning Environment and Writing Performance: The Case of Jordanian Young EFL Learners

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
This study examines the potential effect of incorporating personal learning environment-based instruction on young EFL learners’ writing performance.
Mohannad Bataineh, Ruba Bataineh
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