Developing “SotonSmartSkills”: A reflection on scaffolded independent learning programmes
Developing “SotonSmartSkills”: A reflection on scaffolded independent learning programmes
By focussing on the physical and virtual space of a Language Resources Centre and the development of a wide set of digital literacies skills, this article discusses the SotonSmartSkills (Mar-Molinero & Lewis, 2014) programme developed at the University of Southampton, UK. Through a wide range of scaffolded courses designed to support the transition to the learner autonomy required of students in Higher Education, the programme equips students with skills, strategies, techniques and tools vital for success in their language learning (for international students) and more generally, in their academic achievement and professional life. In this paper we illustrate this initiative with the specific example of an integrated SotonSmartSkills module on our Pre-Sessional English programmes
Language Resources Centre (LRC), digital literacies, learner autonomy, independent learning, flipped learning
209-219
Mar-Molinero, Vanessa
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Lewis, Christian
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1 June 2016
Mar-Molinero, Vanessa
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Lewis, Christian
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Mar-Molinero, Vanessa and Lewis, Christian
(2016)
Developing “SotonSmartSkills”: A reflection on scaffolded independent learning programmes.
Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 7 (2), .
Abstract
By focussing on the physical and virtual space of a Language Resources Centre and the development of a wide set of digital literacies skills, this article discusses the SotonSmartSkills (Mar-Molinero & Lewis, 2014) programme developed at the University of Southampton, UK. Through a wide range of scaffolded courses designed to support the transition to the learner autonomy required of students in Higher Education, the programme equips students with skills, strategies, techniques and tools vital for success in their language learning (for international students) and more generally, in their academic achievement and professional life. In this paper we illustrate this initiative with the specific example of an integrated SotonSmartSkills module on our Pre-Sessional English programmes
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Published date: 1 June 2016
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Language Resources Centre (LRC), digital literacies, learner autonomy, independent learning, flipped learning
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