Whose Autonomy? Voice and Agency in Language Learning.
Edited by Adelia Peña Clavel & Katherine Thornton
(Independent Learning Association) Open access [ ePub​ | Mobi for Kindle ]

The 2018 Independent Learning Association Conference was held at Konan Women’s University, Kobe, Japan, in September 2018 and brought together autonomy researchers from around the world under the theme Whose Autonomy? Voice and Agency in Language Learning. This collection of papers includes a variety of voices, from both classroom and non-classroom contexts, including from learners themselves. 
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The first part of this collection of articles contains papers that explore the development of autonomy of students in the classroom. The second part consists of projects which focus on learners’ opportunities to use English outside the classroom and showcases multiple instances of learners exercising their agency in an interesting variety of contexts. The third section focuses on how advisors and teachers exercise agency in teacher education contexts. The fourth section includes a number of collaborative reflections on the conference. Finally, the fifth part includes seven student papers from the Learners About Learning student conference, organised by JALT Learner Development SIG Kansai Group, and held within the main conference.

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Contents

Introduction. Autonomy and agency: Voices from within and beyond the classroom. Katherine Thornton & Adelia Peña Clavel 
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Part 1 - Voices from the classroom

• Chapter 1. Empowering students through X-Word Grammar: Students’ perceptions. Steve Cornwell & Mariko Hirano
• Chapter 2. A quantitative investigation of science and engineering university EFL learners’ language learning autonomy. Suwako Uehara
• Chapter 3. Focus on learning strategies: Is it effective? Paul Collett
• Chapter 4. Facilitating Japanese university students’ autonomous learning in and beyond the English classroom. Daniel G. C. Hougham

 
Part 2 - Voices from beyond the classroom

• Chapter 5. Community outreach projects as a medium for independent learning. Wendy Gough
• Chapter 6. Building a picture of teletandem experiences to promote the practice. Clair Taylor
• Chapter 7. Model United Nations simulations: Developing learner voices and agency. Lori Zenuk-Nishide, Tom Fast, Craig Smith, & Donna Tatsuki
• Chapter 8. Enhancing the virtual and real-world of a language learner through SNS: Eva’s language learning using Niconico Douga. Yoshio Nakai
• Chapter 9. Academic writing as an individual process — Students’ perceptions of a university academic writing clinic. Robin Lohmann & Christian Ludwig

 
Part 3 - Voices from teacher/advisor education

• Chapter 10. Building teacher and student relationships in a new teaching context – A reflective approach. Nicole Gallagher
• Chapter 11. Becoming language learning advisors: Exploring teacher autonomy. Adelina Ruiz-Guerrero
• Chapter 12. Promoting continuing professional development in English language teaching. Hideo Kojima

Part 4 - Collaborative Reflections/Voices

• Chapter 13. Scaffolding, metaphors, deep seas and buried treasure: Useful things we learned at ILA. Nick Boyes & Ellen Head
• Chapter 14. Collaborative reflections on ILA2018 conference. Naomi Fujishima & Daniel G. C. Hougham

 
Part 5 - Student Papers from the “Learners About Learning” JALT LD SIG Student Conference event

• Chapter 15. Learners about Learning: highlighting student voices and facilitating communication through a student conference. ​Katherine Thornton, Ann Flanagan, & Agnes Patko
• Chapter 16. Reading can improve conversation ability. Shouta Susaki
• Chapter 17. My study method for four skills. Yuio Kinomoto
• Chapter 18. Listening to music is studying. Eriko Kikuoka
• Chapter 19. How I study English on the train. Kento Miyoshi
• Chapter 20. Let me be ME. Yuki Azuma
• Chapter 21. My opinion about Japanese education. Yu Tsuchisaki
• Chapter 22. Contribute to the whole world. Shizuka Seko

Publication details

Publication date: 2020
Ebook. ISBN: 978046357804.  Free ePub.
Kindle ebook. Open Access Mobi file
Produced by: The Independent Learning Association
Published by: Candlin & Mynard, Hong Kong