CHOVANCOVÁ, Barbora, Joseph LENNON, Anjuli PANDAVAR, Martina ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ SKUPEŇOVÁ, Eva RUDOLFOVÁ and Lenka ZOUHAR LUDVÍKOVÁ. Riding the Waves of Autonomy: Language Counsellors’ Reflections at Masaryk University Language Centre. Online. In Ludwig, C., Tassinari, M.G., Mynard, J. Navigating Foreign Language Learner Autonomy. Hong Kong: Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited, 2020, p. 38-103. Autonomous Language Learning Series. ISBN 978-0-463-56990-0.
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Original name Riding the Waves of Autonomy: Language Counsellors’ Reflections at Masaryk University Language Centre
Name in Czech Na vlnách autonomie: Sdílení dobré praxe mezi jazykovými poradci v Centru jazykového vzdělávání na Masarykově univerzitě
Authors CHOVANCOVÁ, Barbora (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Joseph LENNON (840 United States of America), Anjuli PANDAVAR (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Martina ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ SKUPEŇOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Eva RUDOLFOVÁ (203 Czech Republic) and Lenka ZOUHAR LUDVÍKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic).
Edition Hong Kong, Navigating Foreign Language Learner Autonomy, p. 38-103, 66 pp. Autonomous Language Learning Series, 2020.
Publisher Candlin & Mynard ePublishing Limited
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 50300 5.3 Education
Country of publisher Hong Kong
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14640/20:00116328
Organization unit Language Centre
ISBN 978-0-463-56990-0
Keywords (in Czech) English Autonomously; language advisor; councelling sessions
Keywords in English English Autonomously; language advisor; councelling sessions
Tags International impact
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Abstract
This paper, inspired by the questions in David Little’s introduction, was written by a team of six teachers who work as language advisors, or “counsellors,” in the English Autonomously course at the Language Centre at Masaryk University (MU), Brno, Czech Republic. The text emerged from informal conversations among the team members about our counselling work: how we do it; what it means to our students and us; and how we might do it better. Over the course of several months, we turned these discussions into a more formal conversation. We agreed on six questions as an axis for the discussion. Each section of the conversation below begins with one of these questions. After each question, there is a short reflective task for you, the reader, which is modelled on the exercises we suggest to students before and after their counselling sessions (here we’ve adapted the language of these tasks so that they are aimed more at teachers and advisors). Then, we offer our responses to the initial question, and our responses to each other’s answers. At the end of each section, there is a summary of the most important points raised. Finally, at the end of the article, there is another list of questions, this time looking forward to where we might take the conversation next – not only among ourselves, but with our readers too.
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