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He retired in 2008 as Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences and Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin. His principal research interest is the theory and practice of learner autonomy in second language education, on which he has published extensively. From 2001 to 2008 he was honorary director of Integrate Ireland Language and Training, which was funded by the Irish government to provide intensive English language programmes for adult immigrants with refugee status and to support the teaching of English as a second language in primary and post-primary schools. He was a consultant to the Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio Validation Committee (www.coe.int/portfolio) from 2000 to 2004, vice chair of the committee from 2005 to 2006, and chair from 2007 to 2010. Five of the language teaching projects in which he has been involved have been awarded the European Language Label for excellence and innovation, and in 2010 he was one of Ireland’s Language Ambassadors of the Year.

From 1967, she was a teacher of English and Mathematics at a comprehensive school south of Copenhagen where the first steps towards developing learner autonomy in foreign language learning and teaching started in 1973 with a group of 14-year-old mixed ability students. Since 1979 she has been an educational adviser and in-service teacher trainer at University College, Copenhagen. She was awarded an honourable doctor degree in pedagogy at Karlstad University, Sweden, in 2004. She is a producer of materials for language teaching, a renowned speaker in as well as outside Denmark. Together with Lienhard Legenhausen, she has studied the linguistic development of learners in autonomous classroom environments. Her areas of interest are closely connected to the development of learner autonomy, differentiated teaching and learning, internal evaluation and the use of portfolios.

He joined Macquarie University as Professor of Applied Linguistics in 2014 after more than 20 years as an academic in Hong Kong. His background is in TESOL and he has taught English in Japan, Malaysia, the Seychelles, Kuwait and Algeria. Research Interests: His main research interest is in autonomy and informal language learning beyond the classroom. He is the author of Teaching and Researching Autonomy in Language Learning (Pearson, 2011) and has co-edited several collections of papers in this area. This interest has recently led him into research projects on study abroad, language learning and new digital media, and the roles of popular culture in second language learning. Within these areas he has a particular interest in the idea of language learning as second language identity development. He is especially interested in narrative inquiry as an approach to research on language learning beyond the classroom and is co-author of Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research (Routledge. 2013), the first research manual on narrative inquiry methods in the field of applied linguistics.

She is Associate Professor at Akita International University, Japan, where she works with students in an Independent Learning course and with adult learners at the university’s Satellite Centre for Independent Learning. Before moving to Japan in 2005, she was Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand for 18 years. At Victoria University, she taught postgraduate courses in Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Methodology for practising language teachers, and undergraduate courses in academic writing and English for academic purposes. From 1996-2002 she was co-convener of the Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy of the International Applied Linguistics Association (AILA). She has published on learner autonomy as it relates to learner advising, self access language learning, teacher education, academic writing, curriculum design and learner strategies.