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📚 How is English language learner autonomy conceptualised, practiced, and evaluated in bilingual practitioner research in Japan, and how does it align with or diverge from international trends?

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Click now to register for the November 26th 10:30am~ (UK time) official launch of the St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (SAJILE)!

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SAJILE is the open-access International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute (IELLI) journal.

I presented the Self-Access Learning Center Showcase at the JASAL 2025 national conference. A splendid event, and can't wait to attend next year!

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#RitsumeikanAPU

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🎙️ New Beyond The Abstracts!

🔥 Tom speaks with Pia Resnik and Elouise Botes about tangled webs of learner autonomy, emotions, willingness to communicate and achievement in online language learning (2025, Language Teaching Research Quarterly).

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📣 Learner-Recommended English Learning Resources!

📚 Apps, websites, and YouTube channels that students actually used and found useful for English practice. If you're looking for practical, learner-tested tools for English study, take a look:

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🎙️ New BTA Pod (Season 2, Episode 2)!

🌍 In Beyond The Abstracts, Adelia Peña shares how intercultural language exchange and guided reflection support learner autonomy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico self-access center

🎧 Listen now: learnerautonomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/practitioner...

🧑‍🎓New learners, discover 🎓Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) profiles for language learners that match your interests and location— it’s your learning, your way!
#SALC #SelfAccessLearningCenter
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@drsarahhopkyns.bsky.social introducing the St Andrews Journal of International and Language Education (SAJILE) at the launch of the Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER)!

#research #practice

👉 SAJILE: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/sa...

🚀 New on Language Learner Autonomy Research Portal

💡 Research Mapping section — featuring over 20 thought-provoking questions grouped by theme, sub-theme, and research type.

👉Check it out here: learnerautonomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/papers/#others

#research #language #autonomy #TESOL

🚀 Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER) launch event:

Date: 27th June (Friday)
Time: 9.30 am - 10.30 am UK time
Venue: MS Teams & St Andrews
Registration link: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/launc...

🔎 CILTER details: cilter.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

🎙️ New Pod:

How can a qualitative synthesis of practitioner research shed light on the ways language learner autonomy is understood and evaluated in Japan?

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🚀 Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER) launch event:

Date: 27th June (Friday)
Time: 9.30 am - 10.30 am UK time
Venue: MS Teams & St Andrews
Registration link: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/launc...

🔎 CILTER details: cilter.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

🎙️ Beyond the Abstracts: New episode!
Satoko Watkins joins me to explore how we support autonomy-supportive communities in education.

👂 Listen here: learnerautonomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/practitioner...

#podcast #learnerautonomy #studentleadership #inclusiveteaching #beyondtheabstracts

🌍✨ New Podcast Alert!
Beyond the Abstracts (e.15) Daniel Hooper shares his brand-new book on learner narratives in learning communities!
🎧 Listen now: learnerautonomy.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/practitioner...

#LanguageLearning #Autonomy #BeyondTheAbstracts

🎙️ New on Beyond the Abstracts: Multilingual Advising with Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová (Ep. 14)

Martina shares insights from her SiSAL article on language advising

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#LanguageLearning #LearnerAutonomy #BeyondTheAbstracts

🎙️ New Episode!
In Beyond the Abstracts ep. 13, I discuss evidence for language learner autonomy with Prof. Lienhard Legenhausen!
🧠 We cover:
• The LAALE Project
• Gains in vocabulary, grammar & self-assessment
• Case studies of Dennis & Susan 🌟
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