Greetings to all students involved in self-access language learning centers, their advisors, and teachers!

• Are you currently working or volunteering for a self-access center at your university?
• Are you interested in sharing your self-access-related experiences with students from other universities?
• Do you want to meet and hear the stories of other students with similar experiences?

Then please join us for the 8th JASAL Student Conference and share your stories and listen to the stories of others!

Teachers and advisors are your students working on some amazing self-access projects? Or are they new to self-access and want to hear how other universities are doing?

Then please encourage your students to join, present or just attend the 7th JASAL Student Conference. Your students can introduce their facilities and student staff activities, or share their own experiences of learning languages, studying abroad or using their self-access language learning centers.

Presentations can be either solo or group presentations.

Date: Saturday, December 7th
Time: 09:30-13:00
Format: Online (Zoom meeting)

There are two ways to participate:

Option 1 (Present + Attend): Submit your proposal by Tuesday, November 23, 2024, here

Option 2 (Just Attend): Register to participate by Monday, December 01, 2024, here

We, the organizers of Student Conference, are looking forward to seeing you at our online event and hearing your stories about self-access and/or language-learning journeys!

For more information, refer to the PDF below!

※ Please note that this is a student conference. We only accept submissions from students. For more information on the JASAL National Conferences please see this page.

2024 Call & Registration for 8th JASAL Online Student ConferenceDownload

Thank you to everyone who participated in the JASAL Forum at JALT last Saturday, titled Evolutions in self-access language learning. It was a great event, where we got to see both old and new faces!

We had three excellent presentations from members Stacey Vye, Suwako Uehara and Agnes Maria Francis, and a fruitful discussion. 

JASAL Journal Volume 5, Issue 2 is soliciting abstracts for the JASAL Journal for December 2024, with a submission deadline of August 31, 2024. The theme of this issue will be integrating self-access into institutional landscapes, but we will consider all proposals related to self-access language learning. Please send submissions by email (jasalorgATgmail.com) indicating whether you are proposing a research, practice, or review article. In the subject heading, please write “Issue 5(2)”. Feel free to make enquiries to the editorial team by email if you are considering whether to submit a paper.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Self-access and curriculum
• Integrating classroom practice and self-access learning
• Faculty involvement in self-access
• Self-access staff/advisor professional development
• Collaboration and collegiality within self-access
• Student-led self-access research
• Faculty/student self-access learning communities
• Defining value of self-access within institutions
• Promotion of self-access within institutions