Borja Manzano Vázquez

University of Granada | UGR · Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana

Case pedagogy is advocated in teacher education for autonomy as a teacher development strategy which can empower (student) teachers to understand and explore the implementation of pedagogy for autonomy. In an initial teacher education module implemented at the University of Granada (Spain), cases have become a crucial tool for promoting student tea...

The aim of this paper is to analyse different cases developed by various student teachers during the enactment of PA in their practicum experience in order to determine what dimensions of professional competence towards teacher and learner autonomy identified by Jiménez Raya, Lamb and Vieira (2017) they developed.

Learner autonomy (LA) represents one of the most important educational goals in FL education. Nonetheless, its development is still far from being a prominent goal in the practice of FLT and one reason for this is the lack of teacher education initiatives aimed at preparing teachers to foster LA. The aim of this study was to investigate 24 pre-serv...

The present chapter analyses the different language policies and initiatives implemented to promote language education in the Basque Autonomous Community (a small region in the north of Spain), focusing on the shift from bilingualism to multilingualism due to the implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) methodology in Basqu...

It is widely acknowledged that education cannot be just based on knowledge transmission, but it must prepare learners for the demands of a world which is constantly reinventing itself. This requires teachers to develop the capacity to adapt their teaching practice to their learners’ changing needs, update their professional knowledge about teaching...

The development of autonomy is acknowledged as a prominent educational goal in discussions of language education, but it is hardly a reality in many schools. One of the reasons for this discrepancy is the lack of teacher education programmes addressing teacher and learner autonomy as valid educational concerns. Because teacher education is vital fo...

Fostering learner autonomy in the foreign language classroom is a challenging task which teachers are faced with and, for this reason, teachers’ voices should be heard more often in research studies. Based on a previous study (Manzano Vázquez, 2015) where a distinct lack of learner autonomy in the context of foreign language teaching was observed,...

The notion of learner autonomy has become a central pillar of education over the last years (see Lamb and Reinders, 2008; Vieira, 2009; or Benson, 2011). However, despite the general agreement on the importance of promoting autonomous learning in the school context, there are voices that question whether it is a feasible and desirable goal so as to...

Our world is becoming more and more complex, constantly imposing new societal, cultural and professional demands on the individual, such as the increased need for plurilinguistic competences. This situation has prompted the systematic search for new teaching methods that encourage the learning of foreign languages in the school context. One of thes...

Through different case studies, this paper analyses the teaching practice of six foreign language teachers to investigate whether learner autonomy is a relevant goal in foreign language teaching and how the concept of pedagogy for autonomy is implemented regarding the pedagogical principles proposed by Jimenez Raya et al. (2007). The main conclusio...

Previous research on the difference in terms of lexical transfer between CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and non-CLIL students has revealed that CLIL students produce fewer lexical transfer errors than non-CLIL students. This study aimed at comparing the lexical transfer production of two groups of students (CLIL and non-CLIL) and d...

Lernerautonomie ist zu einem der Hauptbildungsziele im Bereich des Fremdsprachenunterrichts geworden. Allerdings ist sie noch weit davon entfernt, als ein relevantes Ziel in der Praxis des Fremdsprachenunterrichts etabliert zu sein. In diesem Beitrag erörtere ich die Rolle der Lehrerausbildung für die Unterstützung von Lernerautonomie im Fremdsprac...