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Palgrave MacMillan Assessment and Autonomy in Language Learning 2015 Edition by C. Everhard, L. Murphy
This book examines this contested relationship between assessment and autonomy from a number of perspectives in a variety of Higher Education language-learning contexts in Europe and the Far East. The contributors to the book describe research into assessment both for and as autonomy, as well as approaches to the assessment of autonomy itself. Table of contents :- Foreword; Phil Benson Introduction; Carol J. Everhard and Linda Murphy 1. The Assessment-Autonomy Relationship; Carol J. Everhard 2. Measuring Language Learner Autonomy: Problems and possibilities; Fumiko Murase 3. Assessing Learner Autonomy: A Dynamic Model; Maria-Giovanna Tassinari 4. Assessment as Learner Autonomy; Lucy Cooker 5. Investigating Peer- and Self-assessment of Oral Skills as Stepping-stones to Autonomy in EFL Higher Education; Carol J. Everhard 6. Autonomy in Assessment: Bridging the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in a Distance Language Learning Context; Linda Murphy Epilogue; Sara Cotterall and Diane Malcolm