Bücher der Reihe Foreign Language Teaching in Europe

This volume reports on the main findings of the project Inclusive epistemologies and practices of out-of-school English learning. The study responds to low attainment levels in English as a Foreign Language among socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. It fosters inclusive and creative educational and research practices.

This volume provides the reader with critical insights into language education policies. It focuses, among others, on migration and minority languages, indigenous languages, and content and language integrated learning instruction, underlining the strengths and weaknesses of these policies.

José Mª Tejedor-Cabrera es Profesor Titular de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Sevilla. Su investigación se centra en la literatura, e imparte docencia en el Máster Universitario en Traducción e Interculturalidad, que co-coordina. Ha coordinado la actividad Tándem de la Facultad de Filología durante 8 años.Javier Martos Ramos es Profesor Titular del Departamento de Filología Alemana de la Universidad de Sevilla. Imparte docencia de lingüística y didáctica alemanas en Grado y Máster. Sus campos de investigación incluyen el estudio de procesos de aprendizaje autónomo de L2, la lingüística interaccional, contrastiva y textual.Leonarda Trapassi es Profesora Titular de Filología Italiana en la Universidad de Sevilla. Es docente de lengua y literatura italianas, y traducción. Su investigación abarca la literatura y cultura italianas contemporáneas. Actualmente es responsable de política lingüística en la Facultad de Filología.

This book focuses on pedagogy for autonomy in language teaching within a vision of education as transformation and empowerment. It proposes a framework for learner and teacher autonomy based on three structuring elements: the context, the learner, and the teacher.

The handbook deals with non-formal language learning in Online Tandems. It gives information on how to start, assist and evaluate the learning process and stresses the importance of a tandem trainer or tutor. It documents research on learner strategies, code-switching, feedback and negotiation of meaning using transcripts of the tandem interaction.

The study investigates interactions between 29 tandem partners from a German and a North American university, who met twice a week in a text-based online environment that allowed them to communicate with each other in real time via a computer keyboard. The analysis focuses on learners¿ codeswitching, negotiation of meaning, error correction, and the use of specific spellings and punctuation. The data suggest that most partners complied with the principle of reciprocity and that the non-threatening atmosphere of the MOO encouraged them to test their hypotheses about their L2. Moreover, the analysis revealed a noticeable increase in learners¿ awareness of the target language. All students frequently engaged in negotiation of meaning, but there was a conspicuous absence of corrective feedback.

Can learner autonomy as a pedagogical approach improve the quality of foreign language learning? How can this approach be constructed so that it empowers foreign language learners to increase their learning independence and create the conditions for continuing progress? This book seeks to contribute to a longstanding and yet ongoing debate around questions such as these. It has been written by teacher trainers from several different European countries for foreign language teacher trainers and for teachers in training. The authors are committed to building a theoretical framework for the development of learner autonomy as well as working out its practical implications for foreign language teaching. The first three chapters of the book aim to help trainers and teachers understand the theory which is relevant to learner autonomy and the principles which support it. The last three chapters present practical ways of fostering learner autonomy in order to facilitate intercultural competence as well as develop listening, reading, speaking and writing skills in a foreign language.