2. INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH AREA  Autonomy, self-guided learning  Self-Access Learning Center

3. Self-Access Learning Center  Various kinds of materials  learning advisors  No L1 is allowed

4. AIM/JUSTIFICATION Students’ English skill tends to be different, even though those students take the same amount of English classes together. Students who use the self-access learning center (SALC) frequently seems that they are highly autonomous.

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6. RESEARCH QUESTIONS  What is satisfaction in the SALC?  What is the nature of student autonomy?  Is there a relationship between autonomy of a student and their satisfaction with their learning the SALC?

7. METHODOLOGY SOURCES SUBJECTS/SOURCES  160 students who belong to the international communication department  Age: 18-23 years old  Most of them will be Japanese  English proficiency level will be various levels

8. METHODOLOGY  MATERIALS/INSTRUMENTS Survey: 1 st Part: Assessing students’ autonomy 2 nd Part: Assessing students’ satisfaction of learning at the SALC Interview Based on the survey questions

9. METHODOLOGY PROCEDURE: 1.Conduct a survey in classes 2.Interview with key students

10. METHODOLOGY DATA & ANALYSIS The survey Data will be analyzed quantitatively with PSPP. The interview data will be analyzed qualitatively by transcribed.

11. ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY The data which might be influenced by social desirability bias. There are possibilities that students might not be able to finish the survey on time. There might be technology problem due to online survey.

12. EXPECTED FINDINGS the nature of student’s autonomy The students’ perception of the SALC There might be correlational relationship between those two variables.