Autonomy has become a keyword of language policy in education systems around the
world, as the importance of independent learning and new technologies has grown. Now in …

Working with teachers on learner autonomy has largely determined my history as a teacher
educator and researcher of language pedagogy. In presenting overall and …

This chapter will explore how we need to rethink current associations between'autonomy'
and language students, in order to address a reductive culturism which I believe pervades …

Second language (L2) learning in the 21st century, perhaps more than in the last, will see
shifting perspectives, priorities and tendencies. Whereas the late 20th century saw the rise to …

This paper examines the working hypothesis that autonomy in education and language
learning is something more significant than the ability to make responsible choices, relating …

This book uses fifteen grounded research projects to explore innovative self-reflexive
approaches to autonomy in language education. It emphasizes the multi-voiced and …

The concept of learner autonomy has been central to the Council of Europe's thinking about
language teaching and learning since 1979, when Henri Holec wrote Autonomy and foreign …

The topics of autonomy and independence play an increasingly important role in language
education. They raise issues such as learners' responsibility for their own learning, and their …

A great deal of confusion surrounds the term'autonomy'when it is used in an educational
context, and many teachers are understandably suspicious of a concept which apparently …