Students' Needs for Autonomous Learning through Self-Access Center Resources and Activities: A Survey on the Target and Learning Needs of SAC Users

The Self-Access Center (SAC) is one of the infrastructures for realizing the self-access approach as one of the modes
of learning beyond the classroom (LBC) that is essent ial to the manifestation of the student -centered approach in
language education. This study looked at the target needs of English department students for independent learning
using SAC resources and their learning needs for independent learning using SAC activit ies. There were 51 universit y
students participated in the study using a mix of questionnaire and interview data collect ion techniques. The study
revealed that the student's primary necessit y for autonomous learning resources of SAC was materials for specific
English skills out of the classroom supported with the use of sufficient internet resources and a nat ive speaker as a
resource. It is to fulfill their short and long terms goals to attend in SAC. It was also discovered that the students
preferred individual reading, free writ ing, nat ive American speaker advisors, and listening act ivit ies. Vocabulary,
pronunciat ion, and grammar need to be progressively integrated into t hese programs since many of them wish to be
overseen by Nat ive American speakers, notably for the American English pronunciat ion model, and non-nat ive
speakers for English grammar.