Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts

Kay Irie, Alison Stewart

ISBN 10: 1349328529 / ISBN 13: 9781349328529

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-01, 2012

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• Titolo: Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-01
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1349328529
• ISBN 13: 9781349328529
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences in a range of widely differing contexts, the authors offer fresh insights and perspectives on the challenges and contradictions of learner autonomy.

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NAOKO AOKI Professor at the Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, JapanPHILIP SHIGEO BROWN Special Lecturer at Konan Women's University, Japan, a tutor on the University of Birmingham distance MA TEFL/SL program and has taught in Japan for almost 10 years in various contextsPETER CASSIDY is teaching pre-kindergarten children at Mitsui Gardens International Preschool, Japan DARREN ELLIOTT is a language instructor at Nanzan University in Nagoya, JapanSUE FRASER teaches at Seisen Jogakuin College, Nagano, JapanSANDRA GILLESPIE worked as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Informatics at Aoyama University, JapanGREGORY PAUL GLASGOW Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan NANCI GRAVES is teaching full-time at Kobe Steel's in-house English training programNAOKO HARADA teaches at the Senior High School Affiliated with Japan Women's University, JapanCHIKA HAYASHI Senior Instructor of English at Seikei University, JapanSHOKO IEDA Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Reitaku University, Tokyo, JapanTOMOKO IKEDA Associate Professor at J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan and co-coordinates the Japanese Language Program of the universityHIDEO KOJIMA is a teacher educator at Hirosaki University, Japan YUKO KOBAYASHI is working at Senzoku Gakuen High School, Japan, teaching advanced-level senior studentsMASUKO MIYAHARA Lecturer for the English Language Program at International Christian University in Tokyo, JapanFUMIKO MURASE has taught English at a university in Japan for several yearsMARTHA ROBERTSON teaches in the Department of Comparative Cultures at Aichi University, JapanCOLIN RUNDLE Lecturer providing academic language and learning support to students at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan NOBUKO SAITO Professor of Japanese as a Second Language at J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, JapanJOSEPH P. SIEGEL Lecturer in the Centre for Language Education at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, JapanCOLIN SKEATES Part-time Lecturer at several universities in the Tokyo area, JapanRICHARD SMITH Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UKSCOTT THORNBURY teaches on an MA TESOL program for the New School, New York, USASTACEY VYE has been teaching English in Japan for over twenty years, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Saitama University, JapanCHRISTOPHER WHARTON runs a private English school in Japan