SUMMARY OF ARTICLES ARTICLE 1Andrew YH Tse (2012) Self-access language learning for Malaysian university students, English Language Teaching, 5:12, 163-166, DOI: 10.5539/ elt.v5n12p163Commonly, in Malaysia, university students depend on lecture notes and their lecturers to learn English. It is also stated that teacher-centered rather than student-centered method is still widely used. Therefore, the use of self-access language learning is believed to be one of the effective learning modes for Malaysian university students. The objective of this study is to investigate whether self-access learning can promote self-directed or autonomous learning in Malaysian public technical university. There are two research questions: 1) Will university students accept the notion of self-access learning? 2) Is it difficult to promote self-directed learning in Malaysian universities? This study involved all students of University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) Gambang, especially first-year students. The result of this will benefit students, teachers, educators, government officials and researchers. However, the result shows that university students do not accept self-access learning. It has been found that it is difficult to promote self-directed learning in Malaysian universities as students fail to see the benefits. Educators also refuse to see its impact on students and still rely on traditional formal classroom teaching. However, students and teachers do not deny that the self-access learning center is beneficial to the learning process. The researcher recommended that the Ministry of Education of Malaysia establish self-access language learning centers in every university to help students learn English in a more encouraging environment. of the authors' purpose in writing it. Ideally, in the future, there should be more studies related to the research fields of all three articles so that they can benefit all parties involved in the respective fields. REFERENCES Bogdan, RC & Biklen, SK 2003. Qualitative Research in Education, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.Hatch, JA 2002. Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.Huberman, M . 1993. The Lives of Teachers, New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Hyener, R. H. (1985). Some guidelines for the phenomenological analysis of interview data. Human Studies, 8(3), 279-303.McMillan, J.H. and Schumacher, S. 2010. Research in Education: Evidence-Based Inquiry, Boston, MA: Pearson.Yin, R.K. (1984). Case study research: Design and methods. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
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