Implementing a Student Peer-Mentoring Programme for Self-Access Language Learning
While language advising is nowadays considered an essential element in ensuring the effective use of self-access facilities, not all institutions have a budget which can support such a service. Student peer-mentoring partnerships can provide an alternative, with benefits to be derived by mentors, me...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Kanda University of International Studies
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://sisaljournal.org/archives/sep15/everhard/ |
| Summary: | While language advising is nowadays considered an essential element in ensuring the effective use of self-access facilities, not all institutions have a budget which can support such a service. Student peer-mentoring partnerships can provide an alternative, with benefits to be derived by mentors, mentees, teachers and institutions alike. What will be described is an attempt to draw on the power of peer dynamics in a self-access context, out of the classroom, over a three-year period. The participating mentees were drawn from the author’s first year, second semester undergraduate Language Mastery II (LM II) course, who were teamed up with mentors from the third or fourth year, second semester, specialist undergraduate applied linguistics course on Self-Access and Foreign Language Learning. |
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| ISSN: | 2185-3762 2185-3762 |