Learner Autonomy Across Cultures: Language Education Perspectives

✍ Scribed by David Palfreyman, Richard C. Smith

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• 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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Notes on the Contributors......Page 10
Transcription Conventions......Page 13
Introduction: Culture and Learner Autonomy......Page 14
Part I Autonomous Learners......Page 34
1 Becoming Autonomous in an Asian Context: Autonomy as a Sociocultural Process......Page 36
2 Changes in Chinese Students’ Learner Strategy Use after Arrival in the UK: a Qualitative Inquiry......Page 54
3 Learner Autonomy as Agency in Sociocultural Settings......Page 71
Part II Theoretical Perspectives......Page 86
4 Toward a More Systematic Model of L2 Learner Autonomy......Page 88
5 Self-Access as Access to ‘Self’: Cultural Variation in the Notions of Self and Personhood......Page 105
6 Social Autonomy: Addressing the Dangers of Culturism in TESOL......Page 123
Part III Practical Interventions......Page 140
7 Pedagogy for Autonomy as (Becoming-)Appropriate Methodology......Page 142
8 Autonomy in a Resource-Poor Setting: Enhancing the Carnivalesque......Page 160
9 Neither Here Nor There? Learner Autonomy and Intercultural Factors in CALL Environments......Page 177
Part IV Institutions and Teachers......Page 194
10 The Representation of Learner Autonomy and Learner Independence in Organizational Culture......Page 196
11 Learning Cultures and Counselling: Teacher/Learner Interaction within a Self-Directed Scheme......Page 214
12 Addressing Constraints on Autonomy in School Contexts: Lessons from Working with Teachers......Page 233
13 Asserting Our Culture: Teacher Autonomy from a Feminist Perspective......Page 253
Postscript: Implications for Language Education......Page 267
References......Page 274
C......Page 298
G......Page 300
L......Page 301
P......Page 302
S......Page 303
T......Page 304
W......Page 305