Teaching and Researching: Autonomy in Language Learning

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-041-23578-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Applied Linguistics in Action

Teaching and Researching Autonomy provides a comprehensive account of how language learners take charge of their learning, why this matters, and how teachers can support it. This substantially revised edition charts the development of learner autonomy from its early foundations to its emergence as a major international field of research and practice, incorporating contemporary perspectives and evidence from diverse learning contexts.

The book moves beyond traditional views of autonomy as independent or self-directed learning. It presents autonomy as a dynamic process that develops through learners’ interactions with teachers, peers, technologies and the wider environments in which language learning takes place. It examines motivation, emotions, identity, agency and self-regulation, alongside learning in classrooms, self-access settings and the increasingly important worlds of informal, mobile and online learning. In the book, Reinders and Benson combine theory with practical approaches and research case studies, paying particular attention to how artificial intelligence is changing opportunities for learners to shape and manage their own learning. They ultimately offer a contemporary framework for understanding learner autonomy as a central capacity for language learning and lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.

This book is essential reading for postgraduate students in applied linguistics and TESOL, advanced undergraduates, language teacher educators, and researchers. It is also valuable for teachers and curriculum designers.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benson, Phil

Reinders, Hayo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I 1. The history of autonomy in language learning  2. Autonomy beyond the field of language education  3. Defining and describing autonomy  4. Autonomy Across Contexts  5. From Control to Regulation  6. Conclusion to Part I Part II  7. Introduction to Part II  8. How does learner autonomy emerge?  9. Classroom-based approaches  10. Bridging Classroom and Out-of-Class Learning  11. Autonomy Across the Curriculum and Beyond  12. Autonomy and Technology  13. Evaluating, measuring and researching learner autonomy  14. Case Studies  15. Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Benson is an Honorary Professor of Applied Linguistics and formerly Director of the Multilingualism Research Centre in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences and Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His publications include Multilingual Sydney (Routledge, 2019) and Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research (Routledge, 2013).

Hayo Reinders (www.innovationinteaching.org) is Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Director of the Institute for Teacher Leadership. He is editor of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching.