Dear colleagues,



Please find details of a forthcoming one-day conference 'Autonomy in a connected world' below. To view the abstracts and register online, click on the conference link. Please forward this message to any colleagues who might be interested.

Best

Jim

SWON 2009
Open University, Milton Keynes
Friday 11th December 2009:
‘Autonomy in a Connected World’
http://learnerautonomy.org/open2009.html
Sponsored by the IATEFL Learner Autonomy SIG, the SWON (formerly SWAN) one-day conference will be hosted this year by the Open University, Milton Keynes. SWON is a network of academics and research students at the universities of Sheffield, Warwick, Nottingham and the Open University who share an interest in researching and promoting autonomy in language learning. This year's event on Friday 11 December 2009 sees a number of researchers from the Open University giving presentations, as well as more than a dozen poster presentations by postgraduate students. Invited speakers are:
      Bernd Rüschoff, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
      Ema Ushioda, Programme Director of the Doctorate of Education in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK
      Elspeth Broady, Independent educational consultant, joint editor of Language Learning Journal


Presentation preview

Elspeth Broady
Autonomy and identity – seeing and moving comfort zones
Bernd Rüschoff
Using Web 2.0 tools to actively engage language learners in output-oriented tasks

Ema Ushioda
Teacher-learner autonomy in a connected world: re-engaging alumni
through an online community of practice

Linda Murphy, Regine Hampel, Ursula Stickler and Sarah Heiser
Learning through experience: developing distance teachers to support collaborative, autonomous language learning

Tim Lewis and Elodie Vialleton
Autonomy and agency in a virtual learning community – the Tridem project
Stella Hurd and Maria Fernandez-Toro
Affect in theory and practice: issues for learning and performance
in independent language learning

Maria-Luisa Perez-Cavana
Autonomy and the European Language Portfolio (ELP):
assessing individual learning styles

Mirjam Hauck
 How can multimodal competence contribute to increased learner control
in online language learning?

Poster session preview


Elizabeth Anthony, University of Bristol, UK
Mediating language learning and learner independence: group interactions among English for Special Purposes (ESP) students in a problem-based learning (PBL) classroom

Lucy Cooker, University of Nottingham, UK
Q-methodology for researching learner autonomy

Javier Díaz-Vera and Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Videogames and learner independence in second language and culture acquisition: The AMICITIAS Project

Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo and Javier Díaz-Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Fostering autonomy in second language acquisition through mobile learning: The EUROPODIANS Project

Maria Jordano, Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Conducting an English for Tourism blog in a distance autonomous context

Hideo Kojima, Hirosaki University, Japan,
Developing teacher-learner autonomy and professional identity: a case of initial EFL teachers’ teaching practice in Japan



Damio Siti Maftuhah, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

Adopting Q-methodology to investigate TESL student teachers conceptualisation of autonomous language learning

Chahrazed Mirza, The Open University, UK
Impact of multimodal online interactions generated in audio-graphic conferencing systems on knowledge construction process

Esmaeil Momtaz and Mark Garner, University of Aberdeen, UK
An empirical study of the relative effectiveness of collaborative and private reading in EFL teaching in Iran

Kinaz Murshid, University of Bristol, UK
Learner autonomy as agency among Syrian EFL university students.

Muge Satar, The Open University, UK
Social presence in online video communication in a foreign language

Liang Wang, The Open University, UK
A tale between two cities: constructing learner autonomy in an internet-mediated intercultural language learning context

Yi-Chun (Sherri) Wei, Warwick University, UK
Creating a space for reflection

Djoub Zineb, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Algeria
‘Affect and students’: autonomy in language learning


Registration

IATEFL members

£50

Non-members

£60

Students

£30


The conference fee includes lunch and refreshments

To register:

Click on the conference link

http://learnerautonomy.org/open2009.html

Then on IATEFL - SIG Events. The SWON conference is listed as the third bullet point.

Click on 'Register online' and follow the prompts.


James A. Coleman MA PhD FHEA FCIL FRSA Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
Professor of Language Learning and Teaching
Department of Languages
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
+44 1908 659909
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