IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group
A website to share news and resources related to learner autonomy.
Independence - Guidelines for Contributors
Contributions in the form of articles, reports, letters, book reviews or short notices on forthcoming events are always welcome!
The newsletter comes out three times a year and includes practical and theoretical articles, materials reviews, net updates, details of events and self-access advice.
Deadlines for forthcoming issues:
November 30th, 2008 (for Winter 2008 issue)
January 31st, 2009 (for Spring 2009 issue)
June 30th, 2009 (for Summer 2009 issues)
Readership: teachers of English as a Foreign Language, teacher trainers (EFL), and members of IATEFL’s Learner Independence Special Interest Group.
Aim: we are looking for contributions, in a variety of formats and text-types, long and short articles, readers’ letters, in short anything helping the readers of 'Independence' to better understand the role of autonomy in learner development. We ask you to consider when submitting your article that you have drawn out and made clear how you are relating your ideas and experience in a practical and/or specific way to learner autonomy and that the focus of your article is clear, well stated and well-supported.
Main articles: contributions on principles of learner autonomy, learner training, learning styles and learning strategies, motivating learners for self-study and independent work, developing teachers and learners for learner independence, different approaches to learner independence, self-assessment and self-placement, self-access materials writing, the effectiveness of self-access learning, setting up self-access centres, counselling for learning centres, teacher training in the use of learning centres, taking the learning centre into the classroom, what learners do in learning centres, activities to do outside the classroom, distance learning including email and computer conferencing, using radio, television, video, feature films and other hi-tech media for independent study, using dictionaries and personal lexicons. Contributions should not be longer than 2,000 words. Longer articles may occasionally be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. The Editors reserve the right to shorten articles.
Reports: on conferences, symposia, and projects. Maximum length: 300 words.
Letters: in response to contributions to Independence or commenting on developments in Learner Autonomy in the widest sense. The Editor reserves the right to shorten letters.
Book reviews: studies and materials relating to learner autonomy. Contributions should not exceed a length of 500 words. Please contact the Editor in advance if you have something in mind you’d like to review or have reviewed.
Forthcoming events: short notices of forthcoming events of interest to our readers will be published.
We remind contributors that copyright of their material remains with them, but that IATEFL Learner Independence SIG, JALT Learner Development SIG and HASALD (Hong Kong Association for Self-Access Learning and Development) have reciprocal agreements to reproduce articles from each others’ newsletters. This makes articles available to a wider audience.
Your contribution may also be considered for inclusion in IATEFL’s annual publication The Best of the SIGs, providing you with an even wider audience than is available through Independence.
Contributions should be submitted in Word by email attachment to:
Richard Smith R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk
or, if access to email is a problem, sent by post to:
Richard Smith,
CELTE,
University of Warwick,
Coventry
CV4 7AL,
UK.
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