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Learner Autonomy SIG
Pre-Conference Event
Wednesday 18th
April 2007
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The speakers
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Marina
Mozzon-McPherson
(keeper of the "Counselling/ Advising" worm)
Marina
Mozzon-McPherson is a Senior Open Learning Adviser at the University of
Hull. She has worked in this role since 1993. In 1995 she
collaborated on a BT-project which explored the capabilities of a
video- conferencing system
for the delivery of a language programme to business people. From
September 1997 to
September 2001 she managed project SMILE (Strategies for Managing
Independent
Learning Environments). This project focused on the promotion and
development of good practices
in the implementation of independent learning environments (classroom,
online and self-access). Amongst its outcomes were: an online
postgraduate qualification for language advisers (http://www.hull.ac.uk/languages)
and a book (Beyond Language Teaching
towards Language Learning). A new edition of the book is
currently under consideration. She has recently been awarded a
doctorate on the construction of online speech communities (The Open
University).
When Marina isn't looking after her counselling worm, she enjoys
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Barbara
Sinclair (Keeper of the "Learner Training" worm)
Barbara
Sinclair is Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses at the
University of Nottingham, UK. She began her TESOL career in 1974 in
Cologne. Since then she has worked as a teacher, lecturer, teacher
educator, materials
developer, project director and manager in educational organisations in
the UK and Spain,
and the British Council in Germany and Singapore. She joined the School
of Education
in 1992 and initiated and set up a number of TESOL related programmes,
including the MA
in English Language Teaching.
Since the early
eighties, Barbara has lectured and published widely on a number of
themes related to autonomy in language learning, including
‘learner training’, teacher education, curriculum design, materials and
task design, self-assessment, self-access learning and cross-cultural
aspects of promoting autonomy. Her books include the prize-winning Learning to Learn English, (1989)
co-authored with Gail Ellis, the Activate
your English series of courses for adult learners (1996/97),
published by Cambridge University Press, and Learner Autonomy, Teacher Autonomy:
Future Directions (2000), co-edited with Ian McGrath and Terry
Lamb, published by Longman.
Read Barbara's
contribution to Independence
on the topic of Learner Training (Part I, Part II)
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Ema
Ushioda
(Keeper of the
"Motivation" worm)
Ema
Ushioda is a
lecturer in ELT and applied linguistics at the Centre for English
Language Teacher Education, University of Warwick, having spent
nine years
at Trinity
College, Dublin. Her main research interests are
motivation and autonomy (among language
learners and teachers), sociocultural
theory and teacher development. Publications include: Learner Autonomy 5:
The Role of Motivation (Dublin: Authentik
1996), and
‘Motivation, autonomy and sociocultural theory’, in P. Benson (ed.), Learner Autonomy 8:
Insider Perspectives on Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching (Dublin: Authentik
2006).
When
Ema isn’t looking after her motivation worm, she enjoys eating out
with friends and going to the cinema and theatre. |
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Flávia Vieira (Keeper of the "Teacher Autonomy" worm)
Flávia Vieira is an associate professor in Methodologies of Education (Foreign Languages) at the
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal), at the Institute of Education and Psychology. She works mostly
on language teacher education and pre-service teacher supervision, and also on pedagogy at the
university. In her work as a teacher educator she tries to promote a reflective approach, together with
pedagogy for autonomy in the school context.
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Viljo Kohonen (with the
"Assessment Worm" in place of Hanne Thomsen)
Viljo Kohonen is professor of foreign
language education at the Department of Teacher Education, University
of Tampere, Finland. He has worked extensively on pedagogical
research and development projects with language
teachers, using experiential learning to develop student autonomy. Over
the
past
ten years he has been actively involved in the Council of Europe's
long-term project on the European Language Portfolio.
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Viljo Kohonen happily receiving the "assessment worm" from Hanne Thomsen
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