Managing Self-Access Language Learning

Managing Self-Access Language Learning
Author: David GARDNER
Publisher: City University of HK Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9629372312

Self-Access Language Learning (SALL) has played a prominent part in language education in universities. Its role is to foster autonomous learning among students. With the wide-spread implementation of SALL and its increasing impacts on students, it is important to understand how SALL is managed in order to meet the learning needs of the users in the most resource-effective way. This book provides readers with an understanding of SALL management by setting the discussion against a wider backdrop and also examining details of current good practice. The authors examine issues of leadership and management in education before turning to look at the roles of a SALL manager, and suggest how these roles are changing and what the future may hold for managing SALL. Case studies are used to illustrate how SALL is managed in different universities as a way of contextualising the issues discussed in the book. The book is of relevance to institutional and departmental managers, classroom-based language teachers, teachers more directly involved in providing SALL opportunities and, of course, SALL managers. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Establishing Self-Access

Establishing Self-Access
Author: David Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999-03-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521585569

Establishing Self-Access examines establishing, maintaining and developing self-access language learning (SALL). While much of it presents practical ideas dealing with issues related to SALL, they are supported by references to relevant literature and research. This link between theory and practice makes the debate about SALL accessible and makes this a useful resource for establishing and running self-access learning facilities. Its unique features include a typology of self-access facilities; a discussion about how to manage self-access; a step by step guide on evaluating self-access; a wide variety of practical suggestions for implementing self-access in different contexts. It is suitable for anyone concerned with self-access, from pre-service teacher trainees to experienced teachers and from managers of dedicated self-access centres to administrators concerned with financing self-access facilities.

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
Author: P. Darasawang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137449756

This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such policymaking, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology spread globally and are adopted, rejected or adapted locally.

Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning

Self and Identity in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning
Author: Florentina Taylor
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783090014

This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning to provide evidence that an identity-focused approach can make a difference to achievement in education. It uses both in-depth exploratory interviews with language learners and a cross-sectional survey to provide a unique glimpse into the identity dynamics that learners need to manage in their interaction with contradictory relational contexts (e.g. teacher vs. classmates; parents vs. friends), and that appear to impair their perceived competence and declared achievement in language learning. Furthermore, this work presents a new model of identity which incorporates several educational psychology theories (e.g. self-discrepancy, self-presentation, impression management), developmental theories of adolescence and principles of foreign language teaching and learning. This book gives rise to potentially policy-changing insights and will be of importance to those interested in the relationship between self, identity and language teaching and learning.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom
Author: Hayo Reinders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000574636

Informal language learning beyond the classroom plays an important and growing role in language learning and teaching. This Handbook brings together the existing body of research and unites the various disciplines that have explored this area, in order to present the current state of knowledge in one accessible resource. Much of adult learning takes place outside of formal education and for language learning, it is likely that out-of-class experiences play an equally important role. It is therefore surprising that the role of informal language learning has received little attention over the years, with the vast majority of research instead focusing on the classroom. Researchers from a range of backgrounds, however, have started to realise the important contribution of informal language learning, both in its own right, and in its relationship with classroom learning. Studies in the areas of learner autonomy, learning strategies, study abroad, language support, learners’ voices, computer-mediated communication, mobile-assisted language learning, digital gaming, and many others, all add to our understanding of the complex and intersecting ways in which learners construct their own language learning experiences, drawing from a wide range of resources, including materials, teachers, self-study, technology, other learners and native speakers. This Handbook provides a sound and comprehensive basis for researchers and graduate students to build upon in their own research of language learning and teaching beyond the classroom.

Taking Control

Taking Control
Author: Richard Pemberton
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9622094074

TAKING CONTROL: Autonomy in Language Learning focuses on an area of language learning and teaching that is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention. The book, featuring 18 chapters from key figures around the world in the field of autonomous and self-access language learning, provides insightful coverage of the theoretical issues involved, and represents a significant contribution to research in this area. At the same time, it provides a variety of examples of current practice, in classrooms and self-access centres, at secondary and tertiary levels, and in a number of different cultural contexts. This volume is a timely publication which will be of interest to all those concerned with learner autonomy and self-directed language learning.

Autonomy in Second Language Learning: Managing the Resources

Autonomy in Second Language Learning: Managing the Resources
Author: Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783319791593

The present volume brings together papers devoted to the role of learner and teacher autonomy in the process of second and foreign language learning, which have been contributed by scholars from Poland and abroad. The book has been divided into three parts in accordance with the topics that the individual contributions touch upon. The first part includes papers dealing with different ways in which learner autonomy can be fostered and evaluated. The papers contained in Part Two are connected with the role of language learning strategies in the development of learner independence. Finally, Chapter Three focuses on developing teacher autonomy, which, in the opinion of many specialists, is indispensable if learner autonomy is to be promoted. Thanks to its wide-ranging focus, this edited collection will be of interest not only to second language learning specialists interested in the role of learner autonomy, but also to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students working on their BA, MA and PhD theses, as well as practitioners wishing to promote learner independence in their classrooms.

Directions in Self-Access Language Learning

Directions in Self-Access Language Learning
Author: David Gardner
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1994-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9622093620

This is a collection of articles on the topic of self-access language learning by a variety of experienced educators currently active in the field of English language teaching in Hong Kong. Separate chapters discuss a wide range of issues confronting ELT professionals in tertiary and secondary education, and in the private sector.

Language Learner Autonomy

Language Learner Autonomy
Author: David Little
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 9781783098583

This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book concludes with some reflections on teacher education.

Autonomy in Language Education

Autonomy in Language Education
Author: Manuel Jimenez Raya
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0429536925

Autonomy in Language Education offers a holistic overview of and novel contribution to a complex and multifaceted, yet under-studied, field of inquiry that is transforming language pedagogy: It offers nineteen original chapters that critically analyze the impact of Henri Holec’s seminal 1979 book Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning; unpack theoretical, empirical, conceptual, methodological, ethical, and political developments over the last forty years from many perspectives; explore practical implications for teaching, learning, and teacher education; and suggest future avenues and challenges for research and practice in this broad, diverse, essential field.