David Gardner has just made a free book titled ‘Fostering Autonomy in Language Learning’ available. The papers in this publication started life as presentations at the conference supported by the AILA Research Network on Learner Autonomy in June 2010 entitled ‘If we had to do it over again: Implementing Learner Autonomy in the 21st Century’, held at Zirve University, Turkey.
The papers have since undergone a process of change based on: peer-feedback at the conference, peer-review and editing.

You can download the book here: http://ilac2010.zirve.edu.tr

Contents
Introduction
David Gardner

Part 1: Observing learner autonomy
1. Metacognition and Imagination in Self-Access Language Learning
Garold Murray

2. Autonomy and Context: A tale of two learners
Linda Murphy

3. The Place of Grammar in an Autonomous Classroom: Issues and
research results
Lienhard Legenhausen

Part 2: Promoting learner autonomy
4. Developing Learner Autonomy with School Kids: Principles,
practices, results
Leni Dam

5. EFL Learner Autonomy as it Emerges in Drama Projects
Gary Scott Fine & Peter J. Collins

6. Tools to Enhance Second Language Writing Autonomy: Can we
do things better?
Chantal M. Dion

7. Portfolio Assessment: A tool for self-directed learning at postsecondary
Level
Mehdi Mahdavinia & Laya Nabatchi Ahmadi

8. Verbalization Plus Automatization Plus Autonomy: A simple formula for learner autonomy
Jonathan Aliponga, Craig Gamble & Shirley Ando

9. The Contribution of the European Language Portfolio to
Autonomy in Reading Skills
Ali Göksu & Bilal Genç

Part 3: Perceptions of learner autonomy
10. The Effects of Out-of-Class Use of English on Autonomy
Perception
Özlem Bayat

11. Egyptian Students’ Readiness for Autonomous Language
Learning
Ghada Hozayen

12. Exploration of How Students Perceive Autonomous Learning in
an EFL Context
Gökçe Dişlen

13. Autonomous Language Learning: Turkish tertiary students’
behaviours
Hidayet Tok

Part 4: Teacher education for learner autonomy
14. In-service Teacher Development for Facilitating Learner
Autonomy in Curriculum-based Self-access Language Learning
Conttia Lai

15. Changing Teacher Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Autonomous
Learning
Birsen Tütüniş

16. Classroom Texts and Tasks for Promoting Learner Autonomy in
Teacher Education Programs: A postmodern reflection on action
Arda Arikan

17. Teacher Trainees’ Autonomous Development Through Reflection
Yukie Endo

Part 5: Self-access centres for learner autonomy
18. Looking in and Looking out: Managing a self-access centre
David Gardner

19. Evaluating Learning Gain in a Self-Access Centre Ellie Y.Y. Law

20. Literacy Practices at a Mexican Self-Access Centre
María del Rocío Domínguez Gaona

Part 6: Technology for learner autonomy
21. What’s the Story? Motivating e-Learners with Fiction
Peter Prince

22. ICT-Based Teacher-Facilitated and Self-Directed Learning for
Mother Tongue Languages
Arfah Binte Buang

23. Learner Autonomy Online: Stories from a blogging experience
Arda Arıkan & Arif Bakla

24. Learner Autonomy and Computers in a Mexican Self-Access
Centre
Myriam Romero Monteverde & Maria del Rocío Domínguez Gaona