Sessions

Teacher Efficacy in a Self-Access Lounge

The presenters’ university’s self-access lounge offers an opportunity for intercultural community-building and English-speaking practice outside the classroom. English Chat Time (ECT) sessions are supervised by full-time teachers, but mainly conducted by international teaching assistants (TAs), who are not required to be from English-speaking countries. This presentation analyzes the ECT program from the perspectives of the teachers who are contractually required to oversee the sessions, suggesting ways to improve teacher efficacy in other self-access conversation lounges.