چکیده:
This article presents the attitude of ESP learners towards the role of Self-Access Language Learning Centres in improving their reading comprehension. It provides an evaluation of the success of these contents as well as an interpretation of students’ understanding of the related concepts. Finally it identifies factors that enhance or hinder the successful implementation of Self-Access Language Learning. Both qualitative and quantitative instruments were used to elicit data that give insight into learners’ perceptions of the issues under review. Self-Access Language Learning was evaluated positively by the students, both as a means to improve specialised English and as a means to develop autonomy as well as autonomous learning skills. The study identified a number of factors that contributed to these perceptions. It also revealed that students’ understanding of independent learning is rather shallow. Finally a number of recommendations were made for a successful implementation of Self-Access Language Learning into a curriculum.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 4, Issue 2 Fall 2011 EFL Students’ Attitudes towards Self-Access Language Learning Centers (SALC): The Case of Iranian ESP Students Farzaneh Javdani1 University Sains Malaysia Hamid Reza Mahboudi Rabbi Rashid Higher Education College – Tabriz, Iran Naser Ghafoori Department of English, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran Amelia BT.
Abdullah University Sains Malaysia This article presents the attitude of ESP learners towards the role of Self-Access Language Learning Centres in improving their reading comprehension.
com Keywords: Autonomy, Autonomous Learning, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Self-Access Centre (SAC), Self-Access Language Learning (SALL) Learner autonomy is, as Little (1991) described it, the new buzz-word in the field of applied linguistics.
Therefore; the purpose of this study had been to investigate the attitude of ESP learners towards the role of Self-Access Language Learning Centres (SAC) in improving their reading comprehension.
Furthermore this research was a try to determine the general attitude of ESP learners towards the usefulness of Self-Access Language Learning and their understanding of SALL based on their attitude towards SALL and SAC.
The attitude of ESP learners towards the role of self-access language learning centres (SACs) in improving their reading comprehension and enhancing their learning as a whole was determined through extracting the percentage of evaluative questions within the questionnaire; including closed questions 3-18-16-17-5 and open question 4.
The higher value that regular user of the self-access resources gave to them for learning to learn specialised English and comprehension of ESP materials was probably the result of their work, rather than of any preconception about SAC and SALL."