90 eefdergi Cilt 21 Sayı 1 Erzincan Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi e-ISSN 2148-7510 http://eefdergi.erzincan.edu.tr | eefdergi@erzincan.edu.tr Doi numarası: 10.17556/erziefd.450474 Independent Learning Advisory Education and Related Applications* Hatice KARAASLAN ** , Mümin ŞEN *** Received date: 02.08.2018 Accepted date: 26.02.2019 Abstract Many language teaching institutions have Self-Access Centres with a broader aim of fostering autonomous learning (McMurry et al., 2010; Benson, 2011). Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University School of Foreign Languages, aiming to improve its Independent Learning Centre and to develop a customized Learning Advisory Program, conducted a BAP-funded research study. Within this project, participating instructors received a skills-based, independent learning advisory education; they developed an independent learning advisory program with its materials and tools, and actively ran learning sessions with students. Following the completion of the project, instructors’ feelings and opinions as to their new experiences and gains as trained learning advisors transforming from their roles as language instructors and students’ attitudes towards the learning advisory service that they voluntarily received from their learning advisors were investigated via using semi-structured interviews. The findings indicate instructors are aware of the requirements of their new roles and they are experiencing a positive and meaningful transformation. Similarly, the students have positive attitudes towards advising sessions and would like to continue seeing that they are being listened to, helped and supported during their development. Keywords: Learner autonomy, Independent Learning Centre, Learning Advisory Program, advising in language learning, academic skills. * This study is based on the customized Learning Advisory Program, developed as part of Project 3934. ** Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, School of Foreign Languages, Ankara, Turkey; hkaraaslan@ybu.edu.tr *** Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, School of Foreign Languages, Ankara, Turkey; msen@ybu.edu.tr