The emancipation of the language learner
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2012
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Zakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszu
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Abstract
The general trend in language education over the years has been to ascribe to
language learners increasing power and responsibility for their own learning.
While this is commendable, the autonomy of learners is still constrained by
views of language that see learners as being mere “hosts” of another’s language.
Such views restrict learners to roles as language learners who make errors
not language users who innovate. This article argues for a more enlightened
view of language and of learners, one inspired by a complexity theory perspective.
It also proposes that such a perspective is respectful of learner agency.
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human agency, complexity theory, learner autonomy, errors/innovations
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 297-309.