Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning

1. Exploring the Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning
Garold Murray

Part I. The Emotional Dimension

2. Developing Autonomous Language Learners in HE: A Social Constructivist Perspective
Christine O’Leary

3. Learner Autonomy and the Theory of Sociality
Tim Lewis

4. Self-regulation and Autonomous Dependency amongst Japanese Learners of English
Tomoko Yashima

Part II. The Spatial Dimension

5. The Semiotics of Place: Autonomy and Space
Garold Murray, Naomi Fujishima, Mariko Uzuka

6. ‘Facebook Me’ within a Global Community of Learners of English: Technologizing Learner Autonomy
Alice Chik, Stephan Breidbach

7. Autonomy, Social Interaction, and Community: A Distance Language Learning Perspective
Linda Murphy

8. Meeting the Autonomy Challenge in an Advanced Spanish Listening Class
Diego Mideros, Beverly-Anne Carter

Part III. The Political Dimension

9. Autonomy, Complexity, and Networks of Learning
Liliane Assis Sade

10. The Ecology of Learner Autonomy
David M. Palfreyman

11. Social Class and Autonomy: Four Cases Studies in a Mexican SAC
E. Desirée Castillo Zaragoza

12. Local Engagements Enhancing Practitioner Action and Knowledge for Learner Development and Autonomy within a Collaborative Teachers’ Network
Andy Barfield

13. Autonomy in Language Learning as a Social Construct
Garold Murray

Keywords: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Language Education, Learning & Instruction, English