{"product_id":"autonomy-and-foreign-language-learning-in-a-virtual-learning-environment-9781441150646","title":"Autonomy and Foreign Language Learning in a Virtual Learning Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Miranda Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigitalised\u003cbr\u003elearning with its promise of autonomy, enhanced learner choice, \u003cbr\u003eindependence and freedom, is an intuitive and appealing construct but\u003cbr\u003ecloser examination reveals it to be a rather simplistic proposition, \u003cbr\u003eraising the following questions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-What do we mean by autonomy? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-What are we implying about the role of the teacher, the classroom, and interaction between learners? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-What do we understand about the impact of technology on the ecology of the learning environment? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis\u003cbr\u003ebook describes the use of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) by a\u003cbr\u003egroup of advanced English language learners in Mexico, comparing what\u003cbr\u003estudents thought\u003cbr\u003eand what they did\u003cbr\u003ein response to the technology. The theoretical aim of the book is to\u003cbr\u003ework towards the construction of a theory of the development of\u003cbr\u003eautonomy and virtual learning in an EFL context. Enhanced\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding about the relationship between autonomy and technology\u003cbr\u003ehas the potential to inform academics, software designers, materials\u003cbr\u003ewriters, teacher educators, and teachers and to help learners in\u003cbr\u003etheir quest to acquire a foreign language.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45082407501975,"sku":"9781441150646","price":17751.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781441150646.webp?v=1767263208","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/autonomy-and-foreign-language-learning-in-a-virtual-learning-environment-9781441150646","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}