The book includes a range of activities that are designed to help teachers encourage their learners to develop responsibility for their own learning, starting from a low initial level of responsibility and adopting a systematic and gradual approach. The activities can be easily integrated into regular lessons, since each serves a clear linguistic purpose and promotes more general learner development. The activities are designed to develop a comprehensive range of skills and attitudes including developing learner strategies, monitoring learning processes, establishing self-evaluation, promoting motivation and developing co-operation.
This is the first book on language learner autonomy to combine comprehensive accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied...
The book investigates interest groups and various learning circles, Reading Circles (RCs) learning opportunity in particular, as a mode of in-class and beyond class autonomous learning in the...
This title discusses the concept of learner autonomy in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). While the language learning benefits of CLIL are well-documented, the author shows that there...
DAVID PALFREYMAN is based at Zayed University, Dubai, contributing to ESOL-related programs in the English Language Centre and academic development in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment...