Whose Autonomy? Voices and Agency in Language Learning

by Adelia Peña Clavel (Editor), Katherine Thornton (Editor)

Overview

The 2018 Independent Learning Association Conference was held at Konan Women’s University, Kobe, Japan, in September 2018 and brought together autonomy researchers from around the world under the theme Whose Autonomy? Voice and Agency in Language Learning. This collection of papers includes a variety of voices, from both classroom and non-classroom contexts, including from learners themselves.
The first part of this collection of articles contains papers that explore the development of autonomy of students in the classroom. The second part consists of projects which focus on learners’ opportunities to use English outside the classroom and showcases multiple instances of learners exercising their agency in an interesting variety of contexts. The third section focuses on how advisors and teachers exercise agency in teacher education contexts. The fourth section includes a number of collaborative reflections on the conference. Finally, the fifth part includes seven student papers from the Learners About Learning student conference, organised by JALT Learner Development SIG Kansai Group, held within the main conference.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164200169
Publisher:	Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited
Publication date:	12/16/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

María de la Paz Adelia Peña Clavel is responsible for an Advisor Training Online Diploma Course at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is in charge of a Teletandem (etandem) project at the mediateca. She received her MA in Educational Technology through the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in México. Her research interests are Teletandem, language learning strategies and autonomy.

Katherine is Associate Professor at Otemon Gakuin University, where she works as Program Director and Learning Advisor at E-CO (English Cafe at Otemon), a self-access centre that she set up in 2013 in her role as a member of Kanda University of International Studies' English Language Consultancy Centre (ELCC). She is a member of the… more