Lewis, Tim & Walker, Lesley (Eds.). (2003).
Autonomous language learning in tandem.
Sheffield: Academy Electronic Publications.

ISBN 0-9541589-2-X
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Autonomous Language Learning in Tandem offers an account of the largest-ever European initiative in the development of autonomous learning. At the conclusion of the project, students from more than 20 countries were working as partners, either face-to-face or on the Internet, to develop their own and each other's language skills. Other benefits for learners included heightened intercultural awareness and an enhanced ability to manage their own learning.

This book brings together the reflections of project participants from Europe and North America whose experience has enabled them to acquire the strategies needed to support independent learning either by practical advice, or by affective counselling. These skills are essential for fostering learner autonomy, a major preoccupation in today's educational climate. The book should therefore appeal to all those who are interested in promoting opportunities for lifelong learning.

Some contributions have already been published in six or more European languages. Here they appear for the first time in English. They are complemented by a number of specially commissioned chapters, addressing the theory of autonomous and collaborative learning and offering a way forward both for practitioners of tandem learning and for other would-be innovators in second language learning.

Contents | Foreword

Table of contents

Foreword ... page 5

• Tandem Learning at the University of Sheffield ... page 7
  Lesley Walker and Tim Lewis
• The Case for Tandem Learning ... page 13
  Tim Lewis
• 1 Key Concepts of Tandem Learning
  • 1.1 Autonomous Language Learning in Tandem: The Development of a Concept ... page 27
    Helmut Brammerts
  • 1.2 Tandem Language Learning and Learner Autonomy ... page 37
    David Little
• 2 Tandem Learning
  • 2.1 Learning by Communicating in Tandem ... page 45
    Helmut Brammerts and Mike Calvert
  • 2.2 Nothing to Say? Suggestions for Tandem Learning ... page 61
    Elke St John and Liz White
  • 2.3 Encouraging Intercultural Competence in Tandem Learning ... page 71
    Jane Woodin
  • 2.4 Language Learning Strategies in Tandem: How to Learn Efficiently ... page 79
    Eric Otto
  • 2.5 Tandem Learning and Intercultural Competence ... page 93
    Uschi Stickler and Tim Lewis
• 3 Supporting the Tandem Learner
  • 3.1 Aims and Approaches in Individual Learner Counselling ... page 105
    Helmut Brammerts, Mike Calvert, Karin Kleppin
  • 3.2 Student-Centred Counselling for Tandem Advising ... page 115
    Ursula Stickler
  • 3.3 Individual Counselling in Different Tandem Contexts ... page 123
    Helmut Brammerts, Bengt Jonsson, Karin Kleppin, Lidia Santiso Saco
  • 3.4 The Role of the Tandem Learner Diary in Supporting and Developing Learner Autonomy ... page 131
    Lesley Walker
  • 3.5 Group Work with Peers: Pairs Advise Pairs ... page 145
    Brigitte Helmling
• 4 Practical Help: Support from the Internet
  • 4.1 Supporting Face-to-Face Tandem Learning ... page 157
    Helmut Brammerts and Karin Kleppin
• 5 Integrating Tandem into Higher Education: a Range of National Experiences
  • 5.1 Integrating Autonomous Learning into the Curriculum ... page 169
    Tim Lewis
  • 5.2 Integrating Tandem Learning into a University Curriculum for Trainee Language Teachers ... page 177
    Annette Gaßdorf
  • 5.3 Integration of Tandem into Foreign Language Curricula: Examples from the Universities of Bochum and Oviedo ... page 187
    Margarita Blanco Hölscher, Karin Kleppin, Lidia Santiso Saco
  • 5.4 Language Learning in Tandem via Email ... page 195
    Jackie McPartland
  • 5.5 eTandem for Trainee Teachers in Portugal: A Pilot Project at the University of Coimbra ... page 203
    Carola Strobl and Judite Carecho
  • 5.6 Email Collaborations in Foreign Language Education: a North American Perspective ... page 211
    Norbert Hedderich
• Bibliography ... page 219