JASAL 2010 Forum at JALT 2010 Nagoya
November, 2010
Title: Self-Access Learning: Thinking Outside the Box
To be involved in self-access language learning means not only thinking but being outside the box! This forum includes an extended session for six posters followed by two oral presentations in which presenters from different institutions talk about the creative approaches they have taken in developing and researching self-access learning environments and facilities. The poster and oral presentations were followed by Q&A and a short discussion.
For a full account of the Forum, please see Caleb Foale’s report, written for the AILA Research Network on Learner Autonomy.
Conference Members’ Presentation Slides
Slides and pdfs from several of the presentations can also be accessed below:
- Jean-Paul DuQuette, A Fruitful Symbiosis: Self-access learning and research in an online educational laboratory. Snapshots of Cypris Chat.
- Ishikawa, Y., Sasaki, D., and Lindeman,G., Creatively using flyers to supplement, assess, and enrich language learning, advising, and program development.
- Hoshi, T. and Momata, Y., Administrative support tools for self-access centres.
Photos from the Forum
The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning 
Thank you so much for the photos! I have heard so many positive comments about the Forum. It’s great to have a glimpse of what went on. I wish I could have been there.