Maintaining Control

Maintaining ControlWhereas in previous decades autonomous, self directed or 'independent' learning may have been assumed to be an alternative to classroom learning, the emphasis has now shifted to the point where learner autonomy, viewed as capacity to take charge of one's own learning, is increasingly being promoted as a goal for general language education. Autonomy, as Phil Benson points out in his chapter, has "become part of the current orthodoxy of language

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and the resulting volume is a benchmark study of a significant movement that promises to reshape the religious landscape of the next century

and parents to achieve the evolving visions of Christian education for girls as Hong Kong grew from a colonial trading port to a global financial centre in the twenty-first century

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It is an essential reference tool for anyone researching Roman imperial history

At a time when democracy is threatened worldwide

Argues for a more valid and democratic approach to assessment and accountability

and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial

" Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods

Taking a transcultural perspective by also discussing Christian and Jewish apocalyptic traditions

Gilmore suggests that narratives of popular films like Hitchcock's Vertigo

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