Fostering Learner Autonomy as Agency: An Analysis of Narratives of a Student Staff Member Working at a Self-access Learning Center

dc.creator	Atsumi Yamaguchi
dc.date	2011-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:38:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:38:21Z
dc.identifier	2185-3762
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/7f511f9143fb488d97eec64b6e6c4418
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/31442
dc.description	This study investigates narrative stories of a student staff member working at the Self Access Learning Center (the SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies, Japan in order to discover whether / how her working experiences in the SALC have an impact on her identities especially focusing on her development of learner autonomy as agency. Drawing on four layers of narrative positioning (Wortham & Gadsden, 2006), I will explore: 1) the ways that agency is projected; and 2) how the learner’s involvement in a SALC impacts on her identities. The examination revealed that the learner’s involvement as a student staff member enhanced her agency to access a target community of English in the SALC. Drawing on the Communities of Practice (CoP) framework by Lave & Wenger (1991), I discuss the possibility that gaining voice in the target community might enable a learner to be more autonomous. Finally, this paper addresses the importance of learner involvement in SALCs – not only for the learners involved, but also for other SALC users in order to provide opportunities to activate both agency and autonomy.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Kanda University of International Studies
dc.relation	http://sisaljournal.org/archives/dec11/yamaguchi/
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2185-3762
dc.source	Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal , Vol 2, Iss 4, Pp 268-280 (2011)
dc.subject	learner autonomy
dc.subject	agency
dc.subject	identities
dc.subject	Communities of Practice
dc.subject	self-access
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Fostering Learner Autonomy as Agency: An Analysis of Narratives of a Student Staff Member Working at a Self-access Learning Center
dc.type	article