Planning for life at the Self-Access Center: Good Practice Reflections
Abstract
The Self Access Centers have been characterized as a means to foster students’ autonomy at the Universidad Veracruzana. The Self-Access Center USBI Xalapa, has been a Self-access language learning center for 20 years. During this time, it has been well-known due to its wide range of learning resources to support students, such as learning objects, pathways, worksheets, interactive presentations, among others. These resources are used in a systematic way in our courses, English I and English II, through a working dynamic which starts with designing a studying plan. In this plan, all resources that appear in our pathways are integrated so as to support and guide our students’ self-learning work. While working on this plan, not only do students foster their language skills, but also they develop metacognitive strategies such as planning, organization, time management, decision making, setting goals and needs analysis, nowadays considered soft skills for life and essential for students’ integral formation. In this sense, the objective of this article is to share the results of this good practice and some students’ reflection about it, this may serve as a reference for other self-access centers.
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