Learner autonomy across cultures : language education perspectives

✍ Scribed by David Palfreyman; Richard C Smith

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part 1: Autonomous learners --
Becoming autonomous in an Asian context: autonomy as a sociocultural process / Phil Benson, Alice Chik and Hye-Yeon Lim --
Changes in Chinese student' learner strategy use after arrival in the UK: a qualitative inquiry / Xuesong Gao --
Learner autonomy as agency in sociocultural settings / Kelleen Toohey and Bonny Norton --
Part 2: Theoretical perspectives --
Toward a more systematic model of L1learner autonomy / Rebecca L. Oxford --
Self-access as access to 'self': cultural variation int he notions of self and personhood / Philip Riley --
Social autonomy: addressing the dangers of culturism in TESOL / Adrian Holliday Part 3: Practical interventions --
Pedagogy for autonomy as (becoming-) appropriate methodology / Richard C. Smith --
Autonomy in a resource-poor setting: enhancing the carnivalesque / E.A. Gamini Fonseka --
Neither here nor there? learner autonomy and intercultural factors in CALL environments / Klaus Schwienhorst --
Part 4: Institutions and teachers --
The representation of learner autonomy and learner independence in organizational culture / David Palfreyman --
Learning cultures and counselling: teacher/learner interaction within a self-directed scheme / María de los Angeles Clemente --
Addressing constraints on autonomy in school contexts: lessons from working with teachers / Flávia Vieira --
Asserting our culture: teacher autonomy from a feminist perspective / Naoko Aoki with Yukiyo Hamakawa --
Postscript: implications for language education / Richard C. Smith.