摘要：The mandate of self-access centers is to provide a venue, materials and support for selfdirectedlearning; taking learning outside of the classroom. The Academic AchievementCenter (AAC), on which this paper focusses, is a support service offered within a self-accesscenter at a university in Japan. Students who receive support do so on a completely voluntarybasis, in a self-directed effort to support and enhance their classroom learning. This paperwas written as a collaboration between the coordinator of the AAC and three peer tutors, whowere employed in the center. At the time of writing, one of the authors was a student in theGraduate School of Japanese Language Teaching Practices, while two were undergraduatestudents in the Faculty of International Liberal Arts; taking their learning outside of the selfaccesscenter and sharing it with a wider audience. This paper was motivated by the desire onthe part of the peer tutors to share what we are doing in the AAC with those thinking of, or inthe process of, creating a tutoring center, especially in Japan. Additionally, it was written togive readers an insight into how a tutoring center in an international university in Japan isrun, as well as its successes and challenges. The paper itself is a co-authored publication by aprofessor and a few student-tutors, representing the vast possibilities of active andcollaborative research which can be done in a university setting.
