Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Professional Learning, Identity, and Agency

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 teachers 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.

Manuel Jiménez Raya is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain. He works in the fields of learner and teacher autonomy and language teacher education.

Borja Manzano Vázquez is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada, Spain

Flávia Vieira is Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal. She works in the fields of language teacher education, supervision, and pedagogy in HE.