Table Of ContentSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Mirosław Pawlak
Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
Jakub Bielak Editors
Autonomy in
Second Language
Learning:
Managing the
Resources
Second Language Learning and Teaching
Series editor
Mirosław Pawlak, Kalisz, Poland
About the Series
The series brings together volumes dealing with different aspects of learning and
teaching second and foreign languages. The titles included are both monographs
and edited collections focusing on a variety of topics ranging from the processes
underlying second language acquisition, through various aspects of language
learningininstructedandnon-instructedsettings,todifferentfacetsoftheteaching
process, including syllabus choice, materials design, classroom practices and
evaluation. The publications reflect state-of-the-art developments in those areas,
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and classroom second languageacquisition, including researchers, methodologists,
curriculum and materials designers, teachers and undergraduate and graduate
students undertaking empirical investigations of how second languages are learnt
and taught.
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MirosławPawlak JakubBielak
ZakładFilologii Angielskiej, Wydział ZakładFilologii Angielskiej, Wydział
Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny
AdamMickiewicz University AdamMickiewicz University
Kalisz, Wielkopolskie Kalisz, Wielkopolskie
Poland Poland
Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
ZakładFilologii Angielskiej, Wydział
Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny
AdamMickiewicz University
Kalisz, Wielkopolskie
Poland
ISSN 2193-7648 ISSN 2193-7656 (electronic)
Second LanguageLearningandTeaching
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Contents
Introduction... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... xi
Part I Developing Learner Autonomy
The Role of Autonomy in Learning and Teaching Foreign
Language Grammar.... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 3
Mirosław Pawlak
A Goal-Setting Logbook as an Instrument Fostering Learner
Autonomy .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 21
Anna Klimas
Simulation as a Strategy for Enhancing Learner Autonomy
in Developing Communicative Competence in ESP .... .... ..... .... 35
Zdeňka Schormová
Developing Learners’ Intercultural Competence Through
Autonomous Learning .. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 51
Paweł Sobkowiak
Educating Towards Learner Autonomy in Early Education. ..... .... 67
Magdalena Wawrzyniak-Śliwska
Learner Autonomy: The Role of Educational Materials
in Fostering Self-evaluation .. ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 85
Halina Wiśniewska
Student-Generated Vocabulary Tests as a Way of Fostering
Autonomy .... .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 99
Aleksandra Jankowska and Michał Jankowski
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Part II Language Learning Strategies
Exploring the Relationship Between Intelligence and the Use
of Language Learning Strategies... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 121
Larysa Grzegorzewska
Fostering Learner Autonomy Through Vocabulary
Strategy Training .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 141
Maria Pilar Agustín-Llach and Andrés Canga Alonso
Part III Teacher Autonomy
Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Teacher Autonomy .... ..... .... 161
Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Possible Selves and Student Teachers’ Autonomous Identity. ..... .... 179
Dorota Werbińska
Linguistic Autonomy with Recourse to the Concept of Critical
Language Awareness: A Practical Proposal for Evaluating
Students’ Political Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning..... .... 197
Hadrian Lankiewicz
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English in the English Department, Faculty of
Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland, and
DepartmentofResearchonLanguageLearningandTeaching,FacultyofPhilology,
StateUniversityofAppliedSciences,Konin,Poland.Hismainareasofinterestare
SLA theory and research, form-focused instruction, pronunciation teaching, class-
room discourse, learner autonomy, communication and learning strategies, gram-
mar learning strategies, motivation and willingness to communicate. His recent
publications include Error correction in the foreign language classroom.
Reconsidering theissues (2015, Springer)andseveraleditedcollections on learner
autonomy, language policies of the Council of Europe, form-focused instruction,
speaking in a foreign language, classroom-oriented research and individual learner
differences. He is Editor of the journals Studies in Second language Learning and
Teaching (www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl) and Konin Language Studies (http://www.ksj.
pwsz.konin.edu.pl/?page_id=466&lang=en), as well as the book series Second
Language Learning and Teaching, published by Springer (http://www.springer.
com/series/10129). E-mail: [email protected]
Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Ph.D., is a teacher and teacher trainer working at
the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam
Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland as well as Faculty of Philology, State
University ofAppliedSciences, Konin, Poland. Her maininterests comprise, apart
fromteachereducation,secondlanguageacquisitiontheoryandresearch,language
learning strategies, learner autonomy, form-focused instruction, willingness to
communicate and motivation. E-mail: [email protected]
JakubBielak holdsaPh.D. inLinguistics obtained fromtheSchoolofEnglishof
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He is Assistant Professor at the
DepartmentofEnglishStudiesoftheFacultyofPedagogyandFineArtsatKalisz,
Adam Mickiewicz University, and Senior Lecturer at the State University of
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Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland. His research activity has been centered
around cognitive linguistics, form-focused instruction and individual variation in
languagelearning.Hehasco-authoredonebook,authoredandco-authoredseveral
articles in journals and edited volumes, and co-edited one edited volume. E-mail:
[email protected]
Contributors
Andrés Canga Alonso (Ph.D. in English Philology, University of Oviedo) is
Lecturer at the University of La Rioja. His Ph.D. thesis on learner autonomy
receivedanawardfromtheSpanishMinistryofEducation.Hisresearchfocuseson
the development of learner autonomy and vocabulary acquisition based on e-mail
tandemexchanges.He isamember ofGLAURresearch group andCRAL(Center
for Research in the Applications of Language). E-mail: [email protected]
Danuta Gabryś-Barker is Professor of English at the University of Silesia,
Katowice, Poland, where she lectures and supervises MA and Ph.D. theses in
appliedlinguistics,psycholinguisticsandespeciallyinsecondlanguageacquisition.
Her main areas of interest are multilingualism and applied psycholinguistics. As a
teacher trainer she lectures on research methods in second/multiple language
acquisition and TEFL projects. Prof. Gabryś-Barker has published over a hundred
articles nationally and internationally, as well as the books Aspects of multilingual
storage, processing and retrieval (2005) and Reflectivity in pre-service teacher
education (2012). She has edited ten volumes, among others for Multilingual
Matters, Springer and the University of Silesia Press. She is Editor-in-Chief (to-
gether with Eva Vetter) of International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor &
Francis/Routledge) and the journal Theory and Practice of Second Language
Acquisition (University of Silesia Press). E-mail: [email protected]
Larysa Grzegorzewska completed her MA at Mińsk State Linguistic University.
She teaches English for Specific Purposes at Pope John Paul II State School of
Higher Education in Biała Podlaska and is a doctoral student at the University of
Warsaw.Herresearchinterestliesinthepsychologyofthelanguagelearner,witha
special focus on individual differences and language learning strategies. Her Ph.D.
thesis explores the relationship between intelligence and the use of language
learning strategies. E-mail: [email protected]
AleksandraJankowska,Ph.D.,isHeadoftheCentreforEnglishTeacherTraining
at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. For 20 years
(1992–2012)shewasHeadoftheTeacherTrainingCollegeatAMUandfrom1994
to 2008 Leader of the Wielkopolska Region of INSETT, the national in-service
teacher training program run by the Centre for Teacher Development in Warsaw.
SheisanexperiencedEFLteacherandteachertrainer.Herinterestsincludeteacher
education, foreign language teaching at the advanced level, task-based teaching,
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classroominteraction,vocabularyacquisitionandtheplaceofcultureintheprocess
offoreign language learning. E-mail: [email protected]
Michał Jankowski works as Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of English, Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he has taught advanced EFL courses for
over30years,specializinginteachingpronunciation.Hisresearchinterestsinclude
practical lexicography, computational linguistics and lexical data mining. Among
the subjects that he also teaches are information technology and statistics for lan-
guage studies and applications of software tools in quantitative linguisticanalyses.
E-mail: [email protected]
AnnaKlimas,Ph.D.,isanacademicteacherandateachertrainer.Sheobtainedher
doctoral degree from the University of Wroclaw in 2010. Her research interests in
applied linguistics and language teaching methodology are in the areas of learner
and teacher motivation and autonomy as well as the research methods used in
classroom-based studies. E-mail: [email protected]
Hadrian Lankiewicz, Ph.D., received his doctoral and postdoctoral degree from
the University of Gdańsk, where he is currently Associate Professor in the
Department of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. His scientific interests
oscillate between history, American literature and applied linguistics with the pri-
maryfocusonlanguageacquisitionandforeignlanguageteachingmethodology.In
recent years, his research has concentrated on an ecological metaphor in language
learning and critical language awareness. E-mail: [email protected]
Maria Pilar Agustín-Llach (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Universidad de La
Rioja, MPhil Spanish Applied Linguistics, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija) is
Lecturer at the University of La Rioja. Her main research interests are second and
foreign langÎuage acquisition, particularly vocabulary acquisition in a foreign
language and factors that influence this process. The variables she has attended to
are L1 influence, age, L2 proficiency, gender or L2 learning context (CLIL vs.
non-CLIL).SheisamemberoftheresearchgrouponAppliedLinguisticsGLAUR.
E-mail: [email protected]
Zdeňka Schormová, Ph.D., has been teaching English to secondary and tertiary
learners. She specializes in English for specific purposes, particularly medical
English (teaching Traumateam of the Czech Republic) and she has carried out
research on the development of communicative competence and learner autonomy
viasimulation. Sheteachesacademicwriting andpresentinginEnglishtodoctoral
students and university lecturers. She runs international projects which support
activelearninginrealisticsettingsandpromoteclosecooperationbetweenlanguage
teachers in ESP, teachers of specialized subjects and hospital specialists in the
preparation of realistic teaching materials. E-mail: [email protected]
Paweł Sobkowiak, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law and
Administration,AdamMickiewiczUniversityinPoznań,whereheteachesbusiness
Englishandcommunicationtostudentsofmanagement.Hismainresearchinterests
