This paper reviews key constructs explored in this special issue of Chinese Journal of
Applied Linguistics, including autonomy, agency and identity in foreign/second language …

In the 20th anniversary issue of this journal, Reinders and White (2016) describe the
relationship between computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and autonomy as having …

This paper explores two general perspectives on autonomous learners: psychological and
sociocultural. These perspectives introduce a range of theoretically grounded facets of …

Holec (1981) describes autonomy as,“the ability to take charge of one's learning”(cited in
Thanasoulas, 2000). The term autonomy has sparked considerable controversy, inasmuch …

This book explores how complex systems theory can contribute to the understanding of
classroom language learner motivation through an extended examination of one particular …

This paper reports on an ethnographic inquiry into the linguistic and sociocultural
affordances available to English and Japanese foreign language learners through their …

This article offers a new reading of motivation based on the dialogical theory of Mikhail
Bakhtin. I join Hennig (2013) and Clarke and Hennig (2013) in calling for approaches to …

Scholarship on language teacher autonomy and agency has demonstrated that both
constructs are central components of teacher identity and, hence, teacher performance …

Scarce studies have been conducted to understand teacher autonomy, teacher agency, and
teacher identity exhibited by English as a foreign language (EFL) student teachers. This …

This dissertation focuses on highly educated, English-speaking immigrants studying in
integration training in the Helsinki metropolitan area and explores their experiences of using …