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Independence, Issue 42 (Winter 2007)
LASIG Newsletter
| From the Editor We begin
this issue with an engaging article by Frank Lacey on the challenges (and ultimate
benefits) of introducing more autonomy into the classroom. The subsequent
article, by Dilek Eryilmaz, also highlights the importance of teachers or
learning counsellors effectively ‘scaffolding’ learners towards greater
autonomy. Following the concluding part of our three-part ‘history of the SIG’,
Jo Mynard then introduces some interesting blorts from the recent Independent Learning
Conference in Japan. As you’ll see from the back cover of this issue, we have
an impressive array of speakers lined up for our own pre-conference event in
Exeter in April 2007, and in this issue of Independence all of them – Leni Dam,
Adrian Holliday, Lienhard Legenhausen, Richard Pemberton and Vance Stevens
– show how they’ve kicked off the journeys of their particular ‘worms’.
Two regular columns, ‘Self-access around the world’ and ‘Learning matters’
round out this issue – how about responding to the query in the former or
the challenging notions of the latter? Keep on sending in your contributions and
consider joining us in Exeter!
Richard Smith |
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Contents
| From the SIG Coordinators |
Carol Everhard and Jo Mynard |
2 |
| From the Editor | Richard Smith | 3 |
| Articles |
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| Autonomy, never never, never |
Frank Lacey |
4 |
| Promoting learner autonomy in an EAP course |
Dilek Eryilmaz |
9 |
| History of the IATEFL Learner Independence SIG (Part 3): 1999-2007 |
Richard Smith |
11 |
| Blogging at conferences: a personal perspective |
Jo Mynard |
12 |
| Conference blorts (blog reports): Independent Learning Association Conference, Japan, October 2007 | 12 | |
| Regular Columns | ||
| Progress of
the Worms
(5): New worms! |
|
17 |
| Classroom Research | Lienhard Legenhausen |
17 |
| Culture |
Adrian Holliday | 20 |
| Self-access | Richard Pemberton |
23 |
| Teacher Education |
Leni Dam |
25 |
| Technology | Vance Stevens | 27 |
| Self-access around the World (5) | ||
| The USBI-Xalapa Self-access Centre at Universidad Veracruzana |
Sergio Valdavia |
30 |
| SAC problems around the world | 31 | |
| Learning Matters | Russell Whitehead |
32 |
| Books recently published (2005-2007) |
36 |
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| About the Learner Autonomy SIG | 36 |
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| Contributing to Independence | 37 |
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| Conference announcements |
38 |
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