Autonomy in a Connected World
Friday 11th December 2009
Invited speakers:
Elspeth Broady, Independent educational consultant, joint editor of Language Learning Journal
Autonomy and identity – seeing and moving comfort zones
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Bernd Rüschoff, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
Web 2.0 tools to actively engage language learners in output-oriented tasks.
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Ema Ushioda, Programme Director of the Doctorate of Education in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK.
Teacher-learner autonomy in a connected world: re-engaging alumni through an online community of practice.
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Speakers from the Open University:
Tim Lewis and Elodie Vialleton
Consciousness and control in learner autonomy and self-regulated learning.
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Stella Hurd and Maria Fernandez-Toro
Affect in theory and practice: issues for learning and performance in independent language learning -
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Maria-Luisa Pervez-Cavana
Autonomy and the European Language Portfolio (ELP): Assessing individual learning styles.
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Regine Hampel, Sarah Heiser, Linda Murphy, Ursula Stickler and
Learning through experience: developing distance teachers to support collaborative, autonomous language learning.
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Mirjam Hauck and Andreas Müller-Hartmann
How can multimodal competence contribute to increased learner control in online language learning.
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Poster Presentations
Elizabeth Anthony, University of Bristol, UK
Mediating language learning and learner independence: group interactions among English for Special Purposes (ESP) students in a problem-based learning (PBL) classroom.
Lucy Cooker, University of Nottingham, UK
Q-methodology for researching learner autonomy.
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Maria Jordano, Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Conducting an English for Tourism blog in a distance autonomous context.
Hideo Kojima, Hirosaki University, Japan,
Developing teacher-learner autonomy and professional identity: a case of initial EFL teachers’ teaching practice in Japan.
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Damio Siti Maftuhah, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK
Adopting Q-methodology to investigate TESL student teachers conceptualisation of autonomous language learning.
Chahrazed Mirza, The Open University, UK
Impact of multimodal online interactions generated in audio-graphic conferencing systems on knowledge construction process.
Esmaeil Momtaz, University of Aberdeen, UK
An empirical study of the relative effectiveness of collaborative and private reading in EFL teaching in Iran.
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Kinaz Murshid, University of Bristol, UK
Learner autonomy as agency among Syrian EFL university students.
Muge Satar, The Open University, UK
Social presence in online video communication in a foreign language.
Liang Wang, The Open University, UK
A tale between two cities: constructing learner autonomy in an internet-mediated intercultural language learning context.
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Yi-Chun (Sherri) Wei, Warwick University, UK
Creating a space for reflection.
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