Manuel Jimenez Raya – författare

Autonomy in Language Education offers a holistic overview of and novel contribution to a complex and multifaceted, yet under-studied, field of inquiry that is transforming language pedagogy: It offers nineteen original chapters that critically analyze the impact of Henri Holec’s seminal 1979 book Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning; unpack theoretical, empirical, conceptual, methodological, ethical, and political developments over the last forty years from many perspectives; explore practical implications for teaching, learning, and teacher education; and suggest future avenues and challenges for research and practice in this broad, diverse, essential field.

Autonomy in Language Education offers a holistic overview of and novel contribution to a complex and multifaceted, yet under-studied, field of inquiry that is transforming language pedagogy: It offers nineteen original chapters that critically analyze the impact of Henri Holec’s seminal 1979 book Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning; unpack theoretical, empirical, conceptual, methodological, ethical, and political developments over the last forty years from many perspectives; explore practical implications for teaching, learning, and teacher education; and suggest future avenues and challenges for research and practice in this broad, diverse, essential field.

This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.

Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses theory and practice and gives a holistic view of the changing landscape of language teacher education, accounting for the transformative power of educational practices that help teachers think and act in informed, context-specific, and learner-centred ways. It also demonstrates the importance of autonomy in language teacher education contexts, specifically to foster teachers’ professional learning, identity, and agency, as well as in assessing and reshaping teacher education programmes.

This book will be particularly useful to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and teacher education, modern foreign languages, and teaching and learning language research more broadly. Curriculum designers and language teacher education programme directors may also find the volume of use.

This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.

Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses theory and practice and gives a holistic view of the changing landscape of language teacher education, accounting for the transformative power of educational practices that help teachers think and act in informed, context-specific, and learner-centred ways. It also demonstrates the importance of autonomy in language teacher education contexts, specifically to foster teachers’ professional learning, identity, and agency, as well as in assessing and reshaping teacher education programmes.

This book will be particularly useful to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and teacher education, modern foreign languages, and teaching and learning language research more broadly. Curriculum designers and language teacher education programme directors may also find the volume of use.

Este libro aborda diferentes prácticas de tándem presencial y online en centros universitarios europeos. En la primera sección se presentan experiencias y modelos de tándem poniendo énfasis en aspectos específicos como el asesoramiento, la metareflexión, la asistencia plurilingüe o el aprendizaje activo. La segunda sección analiza conceptos como la autonomía gradual o el valor de la reflexión. Finalmente, en la tercera y última sección se presentan investigaciones que relacionan el tándem con el aprendizaje cultural, las nuevas tecnologías y la gamificación. El objetivo de esta monografía es poner de manifiesto la eficacia y la potencialidad de esta metodología, así como los beneficios que conlleva su introducción en un formato de aprendizaje formal, informal y no formal en contexto universitario.

¿Qué ha sucedido durante el confinamiento causado por la COVID-19 en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la Educación Superior? ¿Qué prácticas educativas se han llevado a cabo y deben seguirse replicando tras la pandemia?

El presente volumen presenta, en la primera parte, una investigación realizada en 12 universidades españolas sobre cómo ha sido el impacto del confinamiento en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. En la segunda parte se recogen investigaciones y buenas prácticas docentes que han dado respuesta a las dificultades vividas durante el confinamiento y que pueden seguir llevándose a la práctica tras la pandemia.

Se trata, por tanto, de un libro dirigido no solo a investigadores, sino también a todos aquellos docentes que pretenden mejorar día a día en su desempeño docente.