Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited

28/12/2025

Closing soon: Call for chapter proposals

Peer Review and Communicative L2 Writing Practices
Editors: Ashton E. Dawes & Kathryn Jurns
Deadline: January 31, 2026
More details and submission: www.cultivatingconfidencebook.com
Contact the editors directly with any questions

The editors are inviting proposals (100-200 words) along with sample material for a forthcoming collection of innovative peer-review and communicative practices in L2 writing classrooms. The book will share second-language writing classroom practices that integrate communication to help address challenges, such as the isolating nature of writing tasks. It will introduce innovative peer review practices and tools to foster a communicative environment, benefiting both experienced and new teachers. By integrating these activities, writing teachers can help students build confidence as language learners and authors while engaging more deeply with the writing process and enhancing their overall language skills.

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The call is open for chapter proposals: Cultivating Confidence in second language writing. This book aims to incorporate communication into L2 academic writing classrooms, addressing challenges such as the isolating nature of writing tasks. It offers innovative peer review practices and tools to fos...

20/12/2025

Published today!

13/12/2025

Reforming the Foreign Language Classroom: Empowering Learners to Take Ownership, edited by Katja Heim, Leni Dam, Annika Albrecht, and Carmen Becker

How can language teachers create classrooms where students truly take ownership of their learning? Reforming the Foreign Language Classroom: Empowering Learners to Take Ownership explores this question through powerful examples of theory-informed practice

11/12/2025

A big thank you to everyone who attended last night's book launch, and for all your support! We hope you enjoy the book! It is available in multiple formats (ebook, print, library). See the website for details:

https://www.candlinandmynard.com/genai1.html

Artificial Intelligence in Our Language Learning Classrooms , edited by Louise Ohashi, Mary Hillis, & Robert D***s

21/11/2025

New book released today! Congratulations to the editors and contributing authors!

Artificial Intelligence in Our Language Learning Classrooms
​Edited by Louise Ohashi, Mary Hillis, & Robert D***s

https://www.candlinandmynard.com/genai1.html

Artificial Intelligence in Our Language Learning Classrooms brings together leading researchers and practitioners exploring the pedagogical, ethical, and emotional dimensions of generative AI (GenAI) in second language (L2) education. Across two major sections (L2 skill development and broader educational perspectives), contributors offer theory-informed and practice-oriented insights into how GenAI can transform language teaching and learning.

21/11/2025

Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access: Stories of Student Staff Member Motivation, by Christopher Phelps

Book #16 in the Autonomous Language Learning Series

Ordering information

Best value for ebook: https://payhip.com/b/mrGOS

Print: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Christopher-Phelps/dp/B0G1K52RD7

More details: https://www.candlinandmynard.com/selfaccessstories.html

19/11/2025

NEW BOOK! Just released!
'Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access: Stories of Student Staff Member Motivation,' by Christopher Phelps

https://www.candlinandmynard.com/selfaccessstories.html

"Christopher Phelps’ book on SAC student staff member motivation is an important addition to the field of self-access. Its combination of engaging insights, based on a rigorous analysis of inspiring student staff narratives, and practical applications will be appreciated by all those working with students in self-access environments. Student staff are at the core of successful SAC models, and this book can help SALL practitioners to foster their talents and motivation, and enrich their own self-access roles in the process." Katherine Thornton, Otemon Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.

What motivates student staff members (SSMs) who work in self-access centres (SACs)? Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access takes readers inside these unique learning spaces in Japanese universities to explore this question through vivid personal narrativ

15/11/2025

Every language teacher needs this book!

One week to the book launch and available for pre-order.
https://www.candlinandmynard.com/genai1.html

Artificial Intelligence in Our Language Learning Classrooms, edited by Louise Ohashi, Mary Hillis, & Robert D***s

It "offers insight into teaching with GenAI, and helps build knowledge about these new technologies and their impact on language education... it examines how GenAI is already being used in classrooms to the benefit of and in collaboration with the students. This book’s chapters speak to teaching practice, to pedagogy, and to the professional and ethical responsibilities of educators......this book is a very welcome addition to the growing body of literature on language learning and teaching with GenAI"
Mathias Schulze

12/11/2025

One more week before launch day! This book is available for pre-ordering by some online retailers.
https://www.candlinandmynard.com/selfaccessstories.html

Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access: Stories of Student Staff Member Motivation by Christopher Phelps

What motivates student staff members (SSMs) who work in self-access centres (SACs)? Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access takes readers inside these unique learning spaces in Japanese universities to explore this question through vivid personal narratives.

05/11/2025

Coming soon!

We are getting ready to release Volume 15 in our Autonomous Language Learning Series.

Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access: Stories of Student Staff Member Motivation by Christopher Phelps

https://www.candlinandmynard.com/selfaccessstories.html

If you are interested in receiving a pre-publication review copy (and are willing to write a review), please get in touch!

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What motivates student staff members (SSMs) who work in self-access centres (SACs)? Pulling Back the Curtain in Self-Access takes readers inside these unique learning spaces in Japanese universities to explore this question through vivid personal narratives. Drawing on interviews and narrative inquiry, Christopher Phelps examines what drives SSMs to begin and sustain their roles, whether it’s the desire to help others, develop language skills, or build meaningful social connections. By situating these stories within the framework of Self-Determination Theory, the book illuminates how autonomy, competence, and relatedness shape students’ motivation and well-being.

More than a research study, this is a deeply human exploration of learning, teaching, and belonging. Combining rich storytelling with practical insights, the book bridges theory and practice for educators, advisors, and administrators who wish to nurture motivation in student staff and create more autonomy-supportive self-access environments. The concluding chapters offer concrete strategies for recruitment, training, and development—transforming everyday SAC experiences into spaces of growth and collaboration.

22/10/2025

New Book Coming Soon!

We’re thrilled to announce Artificial Intelligence in Our Language Learning Classrooms, edited by Louise Ohashi, Mary Hillis, & Robert D***s, the first title in the Generative AI and Foreign Language Education Series from Candlin & Mynard ePublishing.

This groundbreaking volume explores how generative AI is reshaping second language education—offering theory, classroom practice, and ethical reflections from teachers and researchers around the world.

Release Date: November 22, 2025

Available for pre-order soon in print and eBook formats!
Learn more: https://www.candlinandmynard.com/genai1.html