Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre
The role that a conversation club plays in the improvement of foreign language proficiency of its users in a self-access centre varies according to the strategies a conversation club leader applies. This paper reports the changes made by conversation club leaders (CCLs), who formed a community of pr...
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| author | Pamela Sigala Villa Adelina Ruiz-Guerrero Laura María Zurutuza Roaro |
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| description | The role that a conversation club plays in the improvement of foreign language proficiency of its users in a self-access centre varies according to the strategies a conversation club leader applies. This paper reports the changes made by conversation club leaders (CCLs), who formed a community of practice (CoP) under the methodology of Knowledge Management (KM) to become aware of the effective and non-effective practices they employed through recording themselves, sharing their experiences, listening to each other, and analyzing their performance. A total of six conversation club leaders participated in the case study that took place in 2016. The outcome was a series of strategies generated by the CCLs and shared with all new CCLs in the self-access centre. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-70d44f23a98a4d94b8b5eaaace37ea6d2022-12-21T19:03:07ZengKanda University of International StudiesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal2185-37622019-06-0110216518010.37237/100204Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access CentrePamela Sigala Villa0Adelina Ruiz-Guerrero1Laura María Zurutuza Roaro2ITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, MéxicoITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, MéxicoITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, MéxicoThe role that a conversation club plays in the improvement of foreign language proficiency of its users in a self-access centre varies according to the strategies a conversation club leader applies. This paper reports the changes made by conversation club leaders (CCLs), who formed a community of practice (CoP) under the methodology of Knowledge Management (KM) to become aware of the effective and non-effective practices they employed through recording themselves, sharing their experiences, listening to each other, and analyzing their performance. A total of six conversation club leaders participated in the case study that took place in 2016. The outcome was a series of strategies generated by the CCLs and shared with all new CCLs in the self-access centre.https://sisaljournal.org/archives/jun19/sigala_et_al/conversation clubself-access centrecommunity of practiceknowledge managementreflection in action |
| spellingShingle | Pamela Sigala Villa Adelina Ruiz-Guerrero Laura María Zurutuza Roaro Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal conversation club self-access centre community of practice knowledge management reflection in action |
| title | Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre |
| title_full | Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre |
| title_fullStr | Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre |
| title_short | Improving the Praxis of Conversation Club Leaders in a Community of Practice: A Case study in a Self-Access Centre |
| title_sort | improving the praxis of conversation club leaders in a community of practice a case study in a self access centre |
| topic | conversation club self-access centre community of practice knowledge management reflection in action |
| url | https://sisaljournal.org/archives/jun19/sigala_et_al/ |
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