Ten years of English Café at Otemon (ECO): Sustaining an autonomy-supportive learning community

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This paper reflects on ten years of English Café at Otemon (ECO), considering the contributions ECO has been able to make to individual students at Otemon, the university as a whole, and the wider community.It tracks the beginnings of a new style of learning facility at Otemon, its philosophy, how it has evolved to better meet the needs of Otemon students, and how it has coped with various challenges such as the opening of a new campus and move to new facilities and the Covid19 pandemic.Possible future directions for practice and research are also discussed.Keywords: learner autonomy, selfaccess language learning, community of practice Since opening its doors in 2013, English Café at Otemon (ECO) has now been part of the learning and support infrastructure at Otemon Gakuin University (OGU) for a decade.Its establishment has coincided with the growth of selfaccess learning facilities across Japan.(Of the 58 institutions listed on the Japan Association for SelfAccess learning Registry of Language Learning Spaces, over 20 opened between 2010 and 2015 (JASAL, n.d).This paper first explains ECO's founding mission and philosophy, then describes ECO's development in 4 phases: 1) 2013-2016: Establishing a selfaccess model for Otemon (A collaboration between Kanda University

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