ELT Review

General Editor: Chris Kennedy

Learner Autonomy, Teacher Autonomy:

Future Directions

Editors:
BARBARA SINCLAIR
University of Nottingham

IANMcGRATH
University of Nottingham

TERRY LAMB
University of Nottingham
 Contents

Introduction v
BARBARA SINCLAIR, IAN MCGRATH AND TERRY LAMB

SECTION ONE Autonomy and the Learner 1

1 Learner Autonomy: the Next Phase? 4
BARBARA SINCLAIR
2 Learner Autonomy and Human Interdependence: some
Theoretical and Practical Consequences of a Social-
Interactive View of Cognition, Learning and Language 15
DAVID LITTLE

3 Changing the Rules of the Game: Adolescent Voices

Taking Control: if only they would, if only they could 24
DO COYLE

4 A Reading of Autonomy: Evidence from British

Secondary School Modern Foreign Language Learners
on the Role of Reading Tasks in their Learning 37
PHILIP HOOD

5 Evaluating Autonomous Learning 48

LENI DAM

6 Towards Learner Autonomy: Evolution in Practice: the

Certificate in Independent Language Learning 60
RADHA RAVINDRAN
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SECTION TWO Autonomy and the Teacher 73

7 Is it worth it? Convincing Teachers of the Value of
Developing Metacognitive Awareness in Children 78
GAIL ELLIS

8 Starting with Ourselves: Teacher-Learner

Autonomy in Language Learning 89
RICHARD SMITH

9 Teacher Autonomy 100

IAN MCGRATH

10 Autonomy as a Learners' and Teachers' Right 111

PHIL BENSON

11 Finding a Voice: Learner Autonomy and Teacher

Education in an Urban Context 118
TERRY LAMB

Bibliography 128