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. We are looking for contributions, in a variety of formats and genres, long and short articles, readers’ letters, learner (autonomy) stories, teacher-learner narratives, reflections, in short anything helping the readers of Independence to better understand the role of autonomy in second language education.

 

Contributions in the form of learner/teacher-learner/teacher (autonomy) stories, articles, reports, letters, poems, book reviews, conference reports and reflections, or short notices on forthcoming events are always welcome, as are responses to articles appearing in the newsletter.

 

 Good dates to try and send in things by (and earlier if you can)

 15^th January 2010 (for Winter 2009-2010 issue)

30^th April 2010 (for Spring 2010 issue)

 

Submitting contributions

 

For all texts other than book reviews in Word by email attachment to the editors: 

 

Androulla Athanasiou <androulla.athanasiou@cut.ac.cy>

Andy Barfield <barfield.andy@gmail.com>

 

For book reviews in Word by email attachment to the book reviews editor: 

 

Richard Smith <R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk>

 

Readership

 

Members of IATEFL’s Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group, and other teachers of English as a Foreign Language, teacher trainers and teacher educators, self-access managers and advisors, researchers, and graduate students interested in autonomy in second language education. We also welcome contributions from teachers and learners of languages other than English.

 

Copyright & reprinting

 

While copyright of their material remains with contributors, the IATEFL Learner Autonomy SIG, the 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 (with permission of the author). This makes articles available to a wider audience.

 

Helping out with the newsletter and feedback

 

We are hoping to create a larger team where different individuals can take responsibility for specific parts of each issue. Feel free to contact us if you would like to help with the newsletter. And we are always interested in hearing from readers about what you make of the newsletter, and any suggestions you have for future articles and features: it’s your newsletter.