Balancing Competing Needs among Stakeholders: Lessons from the Self-access Language Learning Centre (SALL) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

Ng, Kwan-yee Sarah; Gu, Yong

doi:10.37237/070105

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“…Except for the SAC activities, one more trend of SAC research has also been focused on the need assessment and/ or analysis of SAC. Ng and Gu (2016) investigated the competing needs among stakeholders of SALL in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) Shenzhen and found that SHSS students perceived positively high to the SALL indicating its precise direction. However, students found the insufficient English atmosphere outside the lecturers' room and looked forward to their speaking especially pronunciation to being guided or corrected in SALL.…”

Section: Literature Review Research On Self-access Center (Sac)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital Authentic Resource and Activity Needs of English Major Students for Autonomous Learning through Self-Access Center (SAC)

Asari,

Ma’ruf,

Mukamil

2023

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To boost English major students’ autonomous learning beyond classroom learning through the Self-Access Center (SAC), the provision of learning resources and activities in SAC should meet their needs. The issue that arises is that little is known about the specific needs of autonomous learning in SAC for English major students. This research focuses on autonomous learning based on the needs of digital authentic resources and activities through SAC as accelerated learning outside the classroom for students majoring in English. A mixed method was applied based on the need analysis model by Hutchinson and Waters (1987). Around 51 English major students of UMM as users of “American Corner” (Amcor) UMM were required to fill out the questionnaires consisting of 6 questions adapted from Ortiz (2006) and 16 of them were selected as interview participants. Observation was also held to support both data. The findings revealed the digital authentic resource needed, lacking, and wanted the most by English major students. Additionally, the types of activities needed the most to support autonomous learning in SAC were also described. The implication of the research is for SAC managers to consider future development and recommendations of resource provision as well as ideas for forthcoming programs of SAC based on the identified needs particularly for the English major students.

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Section: Literature Review Research On Self-access Center (Sac)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous related studies on SAC needs analysis have been investigated by Detaramani and Shuk (1999) of undergraduate students from all departments at the City University of Hong Kong and Ng and Gu (2016) who examined the competing needs among SALL stakeholders in China. University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Takahashi, et al Al.…”

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confidence: 99%