Autonomy in a Connected World
Friday 11th December 2009
CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Autonomy in a connected world
Sponsored by IATEFL Learner Autonomy SIG, the SWON (formerly SWAN) one-day conference will be hosted this year by the Open University, Milton Keynes (within easy reach of London and Birmingham by train). 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 entitled ‘Autonomy in a connected world’ will take place at the Open University in Milton Keynes on Friday 11 December 2009. As well as a number of researchers from the Open University, three invited speakers will be giving presentations at this event:
* Bernd Rüschoff, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Duisburg-Essen, 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
Presentations will include the following topics:
* Autonomy and identity
* Autonomy and agency in a virtual learning community
* Developing distance teachers to support collaborative, autonomous language learning
* Teacher-learner autonomy in a connected world
* Affect and autonomy: issues for learning and performance
* Shared autonomy: creating learning objects for others
* Web 2.0 social software and autonomous language learning
* Multimodal competence and autonomy
There will also be a poster session where PhD and EdD students in particular are encouraged to present their work. Poster presenters who would like to take part in the conference are invited to submit a summary of the content for a proposed poster in no more than 200 words by Friday 19th June 2009. Please send your summary to Julie Grayson (j.grayson@open.ac.uk).
The conference fee, which will include lunch and refreshments, will be:
Early-bird registration (by Friday 30th October)
IATEFL Members £45
Non-Members £55
Students £25
Late registration
IATEFL Members £50
Non-Members £60
Students £30
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