It provides resources, equipment, activities and support in a number of ways to help students improve their English. The Self Access Centre has developed an Electronic Learning Environment that functions as a support tool for the students. It gives students access to a large number of language learning resources, information and materials. It also guides and helps them to carry out needs analyses, set goals and select appropriate learning materials and activities. In this way, it contributes to the development of skills for successful self-directed learning.
Staff are available to provide assistance and, by appointment, language counselling.
Language learning resources include language cdroms, approximately 1000 graded readers, dvds with subtitling, videos, dictionaries etc. In addition, a number of activities are organised to help learners gain confidence in using English. These include sessions focussing on presentation and discussion skills, collaborative writing etc. Students have unlimited access to the facilities, although when it's busy there is a maximum of two hours computer-time. We are located at 8 Grafton Road in the same building as the English Language Academy.