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		<title>Elspeth Broady</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elspeth Broady, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Reflections by Androulla Athanasiou Another very interesting presentation, through which Elspeth discussed the concept of learner autonomy, in relation to technologization, otherising and culturalism and identity. More specifically, Elspeth talked about our beliefs that certain cultures are incompatible with learner autonomy and that we should not stereotype, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=90&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernd Rüschoff</title>
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		<title>Ema Ushioda</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ema Ushioda, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Reflections by Androulla Athanasiou Ema&#8217;s presentation &#8216;Teacher-learner autonomy in a connected world: re-engaging alumni through an online community of practice&#8217; was one of great interest to me, since it brought back memories of my experience as an ELSM (English Language Studies and Methods) student. More specifically, she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=80&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regina Hampel, Sarah Heiser, Linda Murphy and Ursula Stickler</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regina Hampel, Sarah Heiser, Linda Murphy and Ursula Stickler, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Reflections by Androulla Athanasiou The four presenters provided us with an enlightening insight of the pros and cons of online collaboration, in an attempt to promote autonomy. The specific research involved an online collaboration of 20 tutors (at two distance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=89&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Luisa Pervez Cavana, The Open University, UK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Luisa Pervez Cavana, The Open University, UK, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Reflections by Androulla Athanasiou Maria discussed the values of using the ELP (European Language Portfolio) in terms of developing autonomy. She provided us with a thorough description of how she used the two components of ELP (i.e. learning styles and biography), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=88&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Esmaeil Momtaz&#8217;s poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments by Jo Mynard I had a really interesting discussion with Esmaeil Momtaz during the poster session.  Esmaeil is from Iran and doing his PhD at the University of Aberdeen.  His study showed that generally students performed better on reading comprehension questions if the reading was done collaboratively. The collaborative approaches included activities such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=96&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK</title>
		<link>http://open2009.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/mirjam-hauck-the-open-university-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Mirjam Hauck highlights how multimodal competence can contribute to increased learner control by describing a project of online language learning.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=102&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>General impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections by Liang Wang Overall, in the conference voices were emphasized for the recognition and action that LA is not only an individual effort but an inter-dependent relationship with others, or external factors (Hampel et al; Ushioda). In addition to discussing about collaborative autonomy and human autonomy between teachers and learners, institutional culture/discourses that may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=84&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Fernández Toro and Stella Hurd, The Open University, UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Fernandez Toro and Stella Hurd, The Open University, UK, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. Affect in theory and practice: issues for learning and performance in independent language learning. Summary/comments by Jo Mynard The paper that Stella Hurd and Maria Fernández Toro presented stemmed from their interest in feedback that is given to distance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=68&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poster session</title>
		<link>http://open2009.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/poster-session/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poster session, originally uploaded by IATEFL LA SIG. We thought he posters at this event were excellent. Please use this opportunity to give any comments or reflections on posters that made an impression on you. Presenters &#8211; feel free to comment too!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=open2009.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10771743&amp;post=67&amp;subd=open2009&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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