Learner Autonomy across Cultures: Language Education Perspectives

✍ Scribed by David Palfreyman, Richard C. Smith (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What does 'autonomy' mean within language learning? Should it be enhanced within national, institutional or small group culture and, if so, how can that be done? A variety of new theoretical perspectives are here firmly anchored in research data from projects worldwide. By foregrounding cultural issues and thus explicitly addressing the concerns of many educators on the appropriateness and feasibility of developing learner autonomy in practice, this book fills a gap in the literature and offers practical benefits to language teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Culture and Learner Autonomy....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Becoming Autonomous in an Asian Context: Autonomy as a Sociocultural Process....Pages 23-40
Changes in Chinese Students’ Learner Strategy Use after Arrival in the UK: a Qualitative Inquiry....Pages 41-57
Learner Autonomy as Agency in Sociocultural Settings....Pages 58-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Toward a More Systematic Model of L2 Learner Autonomy....Pages 75-91
Self-Access as Access to ‘Self: Cultural Variation in the Notions of Self and Personhood....Pages 92-109
Social Autonomy: Addressing the Dangers of Culturism in TESOL....Pages 110-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Pedagogy for Autonomy as (Becoming-)Appropriate Methodology....Pages 129-146
Autonomy in a Resource-Poor Setting: Enhancing the Carnivalesque....Pages 147-163
Neither Here Nor There? Learner Autonomy and Intercultural Factors in CALL Environments....Pages 164-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The Representation of Learner Autonomy and Learner Independence in Organizational Culture....Pages 183-200
Learning Cultures and Counselling: Teacher/Learner Interaction within a Self-Directed Scheme....Pages 201-219
Addressing Constraints on Autonomy in School Contexts: Lessons from Working with Teachers....Pages 220-239
Asserting Our Culture: Teacher Autonomy from a Feminist Perspective....Pages 240-253
Postscript: Implications for Language Education....Pages 254-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-292

✦ Subjects

Language Education; Linguistics, general; Language Teaching